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Posts tagged brett elizabeth jenkins.
It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will
have touched.
I bought some string cheese today that expires
on your birthday and thought to write you.
I was going to say that I cannot understand why
your parka has not been bought from the Salvation Army yet
(it was a very good parka—it kept you warm
that winter we did not have a car), but all I can think to say
is that I cannot seem to find a way
to say you are gone.
If you stay we can
figure out how long it takes.
The way you kiss me around
the wrists. Tap messages on my back. Don’t say
a word. Write to me only in French. Turn
the thermostat down to sixty and pad
to the kitchen in socks, wrapped up
in blankets like secrets. Boil a pot of water. Two
cups will do. Come back with tea. Steam will
fog between us as we wait under quilts.
