Summer, Still
the city is warm now. windows open. other people's music drifts up from the street and the room doesn't feel like a held breath anymore.
3:47 came and went last night and i slept through it. i only know because i woke at dawn and checked, out of habit, like visiting a grave and finding flowers already there.
i thought "what still remains" was about what he left behind. it isn't. it never was. what still remains is me.
