I hope one day you can understand
I’ve stopped laughing. At least i
You asked me why I never showed u
Family reunions aren’t the same.
Your absence sitting on everyone’s

You and me, beneath a plastic tree

Letting you go has been like ownin
and having the moons fingertips di
Watching you go has been a fire in
An ocean tattooed to the palms of
that had to be drained empty.

White noise, bleeding through the
I am not ready,
I am not ready to let you go.
Still she pulled, she pulled you a
The ocean moving under my body

Your name is stuck in my throat, a

Strawberry blonde fingertips
Her hair like star-trails
A child beneath her skin
Bones aching like the shadow of yo
Thunder crackling through the sky

It was a clean break of the neck,
I know time like the life lines on
I know time because I’ve counted,
I know time, like the lump that sl
I know time, like the minutes that

Your figure against mine, white no
create friction,
as our bodies
create silence.
Beauty.

We smiled at each other one aftern

Out beyond memories of the sun on
My hands, wrapped around your wais
Out beyond thoughts, that run thro
lays worlds,
lays people, that I’ve forgotten b

I’m sorry for what we have been, f
I’m sorry for this brave false sen
even hope becomes tired.
I’m sorry for this empty love maki
empty promises,

The silver in your pulse ran throu
Golden,
your breath was bursting with frec
I painted pictures of the copper i
Home was always a word I was neve

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Someone once told me I had thunde
Like a child, I let you, burn me.
I never did tell you how I felt.
I know from the way you turned you

Dancing round the room,
darling I feel so light
The moon on my skin,
His voice is my music tonight
Pacing round the room,

You don’t remember what her mouth
No you don’t remember what her per
the night she called you by your b
the kites under her skin,
pulling

Most people are born homesick.
They leave the home their mothers
Most of us are born homesick.
But then we hear our parents carve
We hear their voices fuse together

Swollen skies and stomachs stitche

Blue skin tapered to the backs of
The winds fingers wrapped around t
I heard the wildflowers beneath yo
I dreamt of your skin like freckle
my voice cracked like sparklers on

On the other side of the sky lives
On the other side of your soul liv
I can’t remember, the last time I
I ripped open my hands spilling ga
the linoleum of my skin spread bar

It is now the 5th of October, the
As I fumbled around inside this e

I am trying to rip open the sky th
Hurricanes feeling more like home
I miss not feeling at home. I’ve
I’m trying to open you all, to ope
For 11 days smoke danced out of my

I said I couldn’t hold your words
The night was full of skinned knuc
meandering voices and the sound of
full of shallow breaths, of “I don
This town used to hold kings and q

There will be days where your ches
because you can’t feel anything be
empty.
There will be days where you feel
like you’re a paper doll, lying on

Sometimes I feel like despite the
Sometimes I hear the ocean crying
but you always tell me
to just wear longer sleeves.
I can not cover my bones any longe

I pulled out the monsters from ben
When you asked me
to tell you what was on my mind, I
I asked you,
what it felt like

Be crumbled, they said. It’s okay
[my father had copper hands and I
These people they’ll look for you,
The water flows in front of me lik
My fathers words sit in me like th

For you I let my heart flinch lik
I blame it on you but I know I’m
Home seems a little smaller now.
I left the black and blue’s on my
This missing puzzle piece has muff

Thirteen years
I’ve lived with you in my body,
thirteen years
you’ve grown inside my bones like
and made a garden of stars inside

To the one who calls himself home:
You let me live in you like a clou
When you left I named you worthle
Cup your hands at the base of my t
You told me you loved me like the

I carried you under my skin,
I grew,
I changed,
I shed my skin,
But you never changed, you never l

She woke up with you in her bones,
I still feel you in my bones god d
on your hands as they held mine, a
The roads under your veins held st
I’m running home to the same thing

I guess I had a million hopes
I guess I had hundreds of expecta
I suppose I grew a house for you
Inside my bones
Without asking

I sit before the ocean, the sun si
to stop pulling.
Memories of your mouth press into
I, am a field of wildflowers.
Theres a shipwreck beneath my ribc

My mouth is a field of strangled w
the next time I opened them to rid
My limbs are made of star seeds, p
And I was out in the night dancin
I sat glowing upon this world I o

Sometimes I wish I could stop the
sometimes I wish you could underst
I already know.
Your words molasses-thick stuck un
the pads of my knuckles peeled bac