Verse by @arden.wolfe

you never asked and i never stopped answering the mirror learned my face by accident i counted every streetlight home i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet

my hands still know your kitchen the sky was the color of an unopened letter you never asked and i never stopped answering winter came in through the window we never fixed

winter came in through the window we never fixed summer left its fingerprints on the glass every train sounds like leaving from here we are all somebody else's weather

i counted every streetlight home the cold got into the bones of the house summer left its fingerprints on the glass we were young and the light was cheap

the sea does not remember any of our names i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries i put my grief in a drawer with the batteries the cold got into the bones of the house

i traded my quiet for a louder kind of quiet the sky was the color of an unopened letter i keep the receipts of everything i felt