Heather T

boxes

 

 

we spin the same circles

and touch the same skins

it should smell like familiar

but now we\'re just homesick

and ghosts will never be

the new

new

 

old would be nice

it\'s a song we could dance to

but our feet wrote too much

so damned awkward

on paper

now we cry and just hum

all the tunes

 

I know you can live without

yesterday after

it\'s all pictures in boxes

that never made albums

cardboard and frameless

we\'re smiling forever

in tombs

 

they\'ll say do you remember

and no one will leave roses

there\'s only one mourner

she mouths words without music

and wishes she never

knew

that she knew

 

and I always loved you

but the lights in the driveway

grin from the windows

and pull at my seams

until I

unraveled

pack it away like the clothes

we outgrew

 

home

isn\'t home

anymore