Verse by @opal.static

i speak to the version of you that listens i keep apologizing to furniture the lemon tree outlived the marriage i keep the receipts of everything i felt

i am learning the names of ordinary things again the river takes what it is offered you can hear the whole town breathing at four am the field went gold then went to sleep

the calendar keeps making promises you left your jacket on the chair like a promise we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast the floorboards keep the score

you never asked and i never stopped answering somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried the dog still waits by the door at six the floorboards keep the score

your laugh survives in the hallway the field went gold then went to sleep