I fell in love with the sound of t
It reminded me of the firecracker
when you told me,
you could no longer be home to me.
I touched the backs of my hands,

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,

When June falls down around your
Wash the abandonment from your hai
Grab fistfuls of language you can
Wrap your tongue around any boy’s
It doesn’t matter if his mouth tas

They asked me why my hands smelled
I took the wind and clenched it be
It’s a funny thing, irony.
They asked me why I keep myself s
Maybe I’m too hungry. Too curious

Swollen skies and stomachs stitche

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

From young we are taught how to sp

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

There’s a girl out there with blue

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

When I was fifteen,
I realized that I held the sky in
I looked out my window at the tree
moving faster than my hands could
the feelings they left me with;

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

You held me in your arms in the mi

As my body sat still on the wooden

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

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.

Autumn settles in our skin as if w
How I’d love to know the way autu
How I’d love to know the way you’
How I’d love to know it could sta

The sound of October has been any
The lions under my skin have eaten
If only their booming roars could
I lay next to you in your king siz
long after you’ve fallen asleep,

You are the flinch my heart makes.
I miss the way my name sounded in
I miss your laughter, even as it s
I don’t know where you are.
I think you’ll always be right nex

Autumn,
It’s the color of your breath,
when I ripped open my skin
showing you all the planets that s
the air between us a frozen crimso

Your name is stuck in my throat, a

I’m walking barefoot across the ea

I have written about you for so lo

They told me not to talk so much,
they told me,
to take the ocean that moves insid
When I touch the corners of my mo
I left all these people where I f

As the smoke drains from my ear dr

It’s been two years since I’ve le
I’ve allowed your dirty memory to
My mother asked me why I don’t dr
I told her that it tastes like you
I started singing again,

Maybe, they tried. Maybe, her voi
I’ve spent the past 48 hours tryin
I went to sleep with my hands wrap
I wear my heart like a broken pain

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

You were all thunderstorms and oce
You were all wildflowers, grown fr
and dream.
I remember the color of your skin
I remember the sting of your hands

Five years old,
I remember the first day I met yo
like a mother who had just found h
I said your name for the first tim
yet I held you inside my youthful

I’m laying here tonight with the f

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

Tongue tied lava sky.
Teeth scraping against heavy mouth
Clouds wrapped around waists,
waists wrapped around hands,
waists curved,

Last night I slept with my spine
A home I had longed for, all my l
So I gathered up these feelings,
What it’s like to feel.
I can still recall the things you

The colors of your breath are drip
The feelings of the wind curl arou
I will hold you until my hands bec
to put you down.
I found your shadow resting in bet

Your body was like a lunar eclipse
But until then, the sky remains un
And until then, I’ll miss you alo