I\u2019ll light the candle if you promise to tell me
\nhow it looks from the other side, if the rain
\nsounds like beads on the hardwood floor
\nbefore furniture came to dull the echoes
\nagainst bare walls I painted with samples,
\nmaking rainbows for you through the house.
\nthis isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve called your name
\nor asked you to breathe into the soft of my ear,
\ndared you to whisper that song just to see
\nif I can find you. I wear your sweater for days
\nsometimes, walk downtown and ride the bus
\nto see if you\u2019re waiting for me with stories
\nabout the afterlife, how god is a dying star
\nbut no one minds his dimming when
\nthere\u2019s so much to come back for. come back
\nfor me. I\u2019ll make French toast at 1 am,
\nsit with you at the table your father made
\nfrom trees in Kentucky until
\nyou agree it\u2019s better here. once I tried
\nto shoot a deer through the eyes but couldn\u2019t
\nstand the separation it would make,
\nthe truth of this life and another one only
\nseconds apart and who am I to take it. yesterday
\na wren made its nest in the gutter and I cried
\nbecause no one is prepared for floods
\nwhen they come, or to pack away the shoes
\nyou never untied. here I am in this room again,
\nasking for a sign. blow the candle out.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ll light the candle if you promise to tell me how it looks from the other side, if the rain sounds like beads on the hardwood floor before furniture came to dull the echoes against bare walls I painted with samples, making rainbows for you through the house. this isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4A5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17619,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17613\/revisions\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}