Verse by @isla.marren

i love you in the tense that has no word you were a rumor i believed twice the birds do not know we broke up the field went gold then went to sleep

my mother taught me how to fold a grudge i keep the receipts of everything i felt we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast you can hear the whole town breathing at four am

the highway hums the way you used to you can hear the whole town breathing at four am the streetlamp buzzed like a held breath i am not sorry for the way i loved out loud

the birds do not know we broke up the sky was the color of an unopened letter i counted every streetlight home the field went gold then went to sleep

you can hear the whole town breathing at four am