Verse by @sunny.delacroix

i keep the receipts of everything i felt you were a rumor i believed twice i am learning the names of ordinary things again we made a home out of almost

i love you in the tense that has no word we sang until the neighbors forgave us summer left its fingerprints on the glass i left the door unlocked for a season

i still set the table for the ghost of us the sea does not remember any of our names my mother taught me how to fold a grudge i am learning the names of ordinary things again

i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries somewhere a phone rings and nobody is worried there is a version of us that stayed your laugh survives in the hallway

there is a version of us that stayed the calendar keeps making promises we are all somebody else's weather the lemon tree outlived the marriage

the floorboards keep the score the lemon tree outlived the marriage we made a home out of almost