apologies for my absence and so on and so forth...

things of late:

• went home to memphis for fall breaking
• celebrated my nineteenth birthday
• recognized the final end of a very dear relationship
• spent valuable time with my darling younger brother
• saw my twin and felt at rest
• sought rejuvenation
• had incredible thrifting success
• arrived "home" to jackson to begin this second semester

(from the poem because by alfin sa'at)
Because love is a drug for which you either secure the supply or learn to go cold turkey.

Because everything you did mattered to me, mattered too much, each breath you exhaled stirred a windchime, ripened an ember, rippled the skin of water.

Because when I told myself I would do anything for you I forgot the caveat: except wait indefinitely.

Because I would rather miss you like this than keep missing what I want you to be.

Because I leave behind a mark only moonlight could make visible, a transparent layer of skin, tomorrow’s dust