homesick, adj. This is what you left behind: open windows and the smell of orange rinds— the sickly sweet tang of forgotten love that didn’t get a chance to stand up on its own two feet. Then the rain got in, staining everything: the pillows and sheets, the books we’d dogeared together, the ink from our looping script in the margins running, running, gone. I hold the pages together up to my chest like I used to when I was nine, back when books cured everything: stomach viruses, the flu, the boy who laughs at the note written to him out of clumsy, orange-peeled love. You didn’t leave anything behind. The books were mine, left out on the line to dry, the blankets I had to twist the laughter out of, the pens whose words I had to refill, the clothes we’d burrito ourselves into: mine. Everything, all of it, smells just like you; everything is stained indigo-blue. I don’t know what time it is there, I don’t know if you’re just sitting down to dinner or going over the day in your head; I don’t know if you ever stop to take a breather and tilt your head back and admire the sky through the ceiling at the same times I do each day. All I know is that I keep the windows open, all of them, hoping that when the streetlamps come on you won’t mistake them for the moon but that instead they’ll lead you, one by one like stepping stones, back to me. Bring the peeler.

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