From every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold the weight of what they heard So fires crept through spaces long left soft & blurred Notes slipped under the doors frozen to the floor we believed everything leaves blown beneath the eaves whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings We were young we didn t heed those things if birds were singing we were loved We were young like the universe like our mothers were like these words
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