Verse by @mara.holloway

you were a rumor i believed twice i counted every streetlight home your laugh survives in the hallway you can hear the whole town breathing at four am

the field went gold then went to sleep i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries i speak to the version of you that listens somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried

your laugh survives in the hallway we were young and the light was cheap the church bell is just a bell on tuesdays you left your jacket on the chair like a promise

i still set the table for the ghost of us i left the door unlocked for a season the lemon tree outlived the marriage the radio only plays the parts i remember

i speak to the version of you that listens nothing holy ever asked for my name the sea does not remember any of our names the calendar keeps making promises

the lemon tree outlived the marriage we made a home out of almost the mirror learned my face by accident there is a version of us that stayed