“You were a language I learned by ear, syllables pressed into the curve of my neck, intonations traced along my spine. But love, I have forgotten how to conjugate us— the past imperfect, the future conditional, sentences unraveling into tenses that no longer hold.”
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Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind
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