Before you ask me to leave, I need you to return some things I left with you for safekeeping, I don’t want this any more than you, and I would like this to be a civilised goodbye, so just give me back the hours I put in, staying up with you as you chased sunsets […]
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The day after I died, I woke up with a knot in my throat, a rising crescendo of goodbyes that reminded me of the last day of school, bubbling up and simmering down, ‘summer will be over soon,’ but this one would not, and I realised that when I sat next to my sister, watching […]
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Hold me down in water, just six inches is enough to drag me away, and two feet would wash away my car, but you knew that since the moment you pressed your palm against the curve of my neck and pushed down, carefully, with deliberation, and held me with your fingertips, just so afraid of […]
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