the rest

3. The weight of something I never asked to carry.
8. Salt, the taste of tangled thoughts.
10. We share a bed but we don’t talk about it.
11. Gun, Not the storm, but the quiet before it.
13. Uneven ground that remembers a history we no longer speak of.
16. We’ve danced together for so long, I forget whose feet are moving first.
17. Love letters from battles I shouldn’t have fought.
18. I fight with things I can’t touch.
20. Gravity’s a feeling, not a fact.
21. A prelude to the words that set him off.
23. Your body stops being a continent.
24. I see light around the edges of my worst mistakes.
25. A stumble into magic.
26. Neither of us was ever innocent in this.

1. If I say the wrong thing, the whole world might stop listening.
2. The sharpness blooming in the quiet of my mouth.
4. A scream in the shape of a kiss.
5. The reason I tell stories better than I live them.
6. What happens when you put your faith in someone who has none.
7. Secrets that can be unbuttoned.
9. A never-ending fever dream.
12. I’ve let things grow over me, until I can’t tell where I end and the wild begins.
13. Your capacity to love is historical.
14. Just a thing that happens to me.
15. Sometimes I wonder if I’m living the wrong life.
19. Habit, I leave doors cracked open hoping the past will slip in.
22. Like raindrops carving canyons, soft but relentless.
27. Mary, Bought from a vending machine in Dublin so I could fit in.