it might as well
be a 10” scar
ragged
across
my collarbone.
if it looked
as bad
as i feel inside,
you wouldn’t misread my tone
or my tendency (these days) to be alone.

’misread’ is from the book ‘it’s not me, it’s you: from breaking-up to moving on, one stitch at a time’.

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