Gordan Struić

READ RECEIPT

You read it.
Then erased.
Us.

No glitch.
No question.
You read.
You left.

You unplugged.
Me.

I didn’t reply.

Not because
I didn’t want to.

But because
I don’t beg
for echoes.

I archive
what’s
dead.

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UNREAD: you.txt

> File created:
3:14 AM
unsaved.txt

Subject:
whatever

Body:
I’m not sure if this is
a message
or a memory.

But I miss
the version of me
that existed
when you replied.

Attachment:
one photograph
(failed to upload)

Attachment:
one heart
(still pending)

Status:
Unread.
Unsent.
Unfinished.

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Gordan Struić is a Croatian poet whose work explores silence, memory, and the emotional residue of digital life. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beyond Words, 34th Parallel, and Prosetrics Magazine, among others. With a background in law and political science, Gordan blends structured clarity with lyrical depth, often writing from the quiet intersections between the human and the technological. He lives and writes in Zagreb, Croatia.

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