He still emails me drunk-
Upset that he doesn’t know who you are and...

I get to be unapologetically myself with you-
Chloroform jokes and shared poems...

Something inside of my body fused to you.
Thursday night giggles echoed against the four...

The flowers sat quietly in the kitchen-
Proof that softness had returned...

Someone told me recently to enjoy my ‘boring...
But I’d rather spend my time publishing books...

I was in the bathroom two nights prior-
Two beers deep and debating on messaging you...

“I’d eat twenty Klondike bars in order to do...
We were arranging a day to get together and have...

You became a part of the house.
And it took approximately two years of...

The gentle man wins this time.
That’s what I wrote to you at approximately...

“Come exist with me soon.” I’d said-
I was with some friends checking out the new...

I fell in love with you slowly-
It was months of consistent check ins...

I sobbed into my blanket so hard the contents of...
Grief is unbearable in the way that you can’t...