Verse by @wilder.june

i love you in the tense that has no word the sea does not remember any of our names you left your jacket on the chair like a promise i am learning the names of ordinary things again

i keep apologizing to furniture i keep the porch light on for nobody the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors we sang until the neighbors forgave us

i keep the receipts of everything i felt the field went gold then went to sleep the mirror learned my face by accident the sea does not remember any of our names

the bus came and i did not get on you never asked and i never stopped answering i buried the argument in the yard the lemon tree outlived the marriage