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We're Not, But We Could Be

By Lauren Milici
Fall 2019 | Poetry

We’re Not, But We Could Be

A glowing white house

         tucked beneath the trees

& the too-quiet hallway

         that leads to your door.

Home feels like this, I think—

         sacred, without question.

As if we’ve always lived here.

         As if we built this

together.

         I do silly things now, like daydream

about the honeygreentea scent of your skin,

         or buy plastic toys for your sweet, destructive cat,

& worry, a lot.

         There is a softness here,

but it’s young and doesn’t know

         what it wants to be yet.

It whispers, I am going as slowly as I can.

         It’s never loved, but it’s learning.

Lauren Milici is a Jersey-born, Florida raised poet and writer based in West Virginia. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University. When she isn’t crafting sad poems about sex, she’s either writing or shouting into the void about film, TV, and all things pop culture.


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