this is a different kind of yearning, how can you crave a taste you've never known? how do I grieve the absence of company I haven’t kept? there’s a little bit of you left for me, a shadow that leers over my sink, a silhouette behind me, massaging shampoo into my hair the echo of footsteps following me up my stairs, you retrieve the keys from my purse
I sit on this sofa and the you that I once had is beside me, leaving an imprint on my left-most cushion, I let you rest here once and now you are the trim on my front door Unravel yourself from the braid down my back and snake yourself from my drain I hear you in the creak escaping from my floorboards you are be the monster under my bed Sage won’t eradicate you, please leave this space You lie beside me, a sheet of knowing tethering me to the mattress.