Verse by @vera.tundra

i am learning the names of ordinary things again the church bell is just a bell on tuesdays the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors the lemon tree outlived the marriage

the floorboards keep the score there is a version of us that stayed winter came in through the window we never fixed i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries

i saved the last cigarette for a braver night the floorboards keep the score i wore your city like a borrowed coat i am learning the names of ordinary things again

the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors the kettle screams and i let it