Verse by @cass.overgrow

we drank the cheap thing and called it a feast i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet i love you in the tense that has no word the river takes what it is offered

the map was wrong but the walking was right the floorboards keep the score i buried the argument in the yard the wallpaper remembers the wrong colors

i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet i put the whole year in one suitcase i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries you were a rumor i believed twice

the calendar keeps making promises the sky was the color of an unopened letter i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet i am not sorry for the way i loved out loud

the church bell is just a bell on tuesdays i love you in the tense that has no word i keep apologizing to furniture you can hear the whole town breathing at four am

the field went gold then went to sleep the dog still waits by the door at six there is a version of us that stayed