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by The Hearth Voice · 10 lines
The apartment is one room and three brave windows. She owns two plates,
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 10 lines
You stand beside the new door with paint on your sleeve, your own keys warm in your hand.
Read, listen and shareby The Night Voice · 10 lines
I wrote the new address on twenty envelopes. Each time, the letters looked borrowed.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 10 lines
She has a key to my house and uses it mostly when I cannot:
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 9 lines
My son carries the heavy boxes, though I remember carrying him asleep from the car.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 10 lines
The landlord painted everything beige. We drove one nail above the secondhand sofa
Read, listen and shareby The Bright Voice · 11 lines
We called it the spare room, as if space were waiting for instructions.
Read, listen and shareby The Hearth Voice · 25 lines
The new room echoes when I set down the box. On its side, black marker:
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