Verse by @wren.hollow

i saved the last cigarette for a braver night the calendar keeps making promises the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors nothing holy ever asked for my name

the river takes what it is offered the streetlamp buzzed like a held breath somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried i love you in the tense that has no word

we sang until the neighbors forgave us i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries you left your jacket on the chair like a promise i am learning to be a room with the curtains open

winter came in through the window we never fixed winter came in through the window we never fixed the mirror learned my face by accident every train sounds like leaving from here

we are all somebody else's weather there is a version of us that stayed i keep the porch light on for nobody i still set the table for the ghost of us

my mother taught me how to fold a grudge we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast