Verse by @casper.halden

the birds do not know we broke up i left the door unlocked for a season your laugh survives in the hallway you never asked and i never stopped answering

the highway hums the way you used to you were a rumor i believed twice i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet the calendar keeps making promises

the moon is a coin i cannot spend the river takes what it is offered there is a version of us that stayed winter came in through the window we never fixed

i am learning the names of ordinary things again we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast we made a home out of almost the lemon tree outlived the marriage

the bus came and i did not get on i counted every streetlight home the tape hissed where your voice should be the river takes what it is offered