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Morning found us slowly
Sheets twisted around our legs
One of us would open an eye
The other would already be smiling

Sometimes we’d start laughing
For reasons we’d forgotten
Ten minutes turned to twenty
Twenty turned into thirty
And we’d still be laughing
Like two idiots with nowhere to be

There were hugs that happened
In the middle of everything
Passing each other in the hallway
Reaching for the same thing
Walking into the same room
A quick embrace
A crooked smile
Your eyes catching mine
Those tiny interruptions
Were my favourite part of the day

And sometimes
You’d find me at the stove
I’d hear your footsteps
Before I felt your arms
You’d wrap yourself around me
From behind
Kiss my shoulder
And say it quietly
“I love you.”
Then you’d walk away
As if you’d said nothing unusual

I miss those things
Not the spectacular ones
Not the stories we’d tell other people
I miss your weight beside me
Your laugh arriving before the joke
Your hand finding mine
All those little pieces of time
I didn’t know were becoming memories
I wouldn’t exchange one of them
For anything

And those drives
Hours on the road
Town after town
The world sliding past the windows
Neither of us talking
One song
Then another
Then another
Sometimes your fingers moved
With the rhythm on the steering wheel
I’d look at you
You’d look at the road
And somehow
That was conversation enough

Then evening
Two chairs outside
Your shoulder against mine
My legs tucked close to you
The moon hanging somewhere above us
Crickets making that endless summer noise
We never paid attention to
Until now
Now I can hear them

I miss waking beside you
I miss laughing until my stomach hurt
I miss being caught from behind
While dinner was still on the stove
I miss the road beneath us
And the songs between us
I miss sitting outside
Pressed against you
Watching the moon move slowly overhead

And I don’t want to rewrite any of it
Not one morning
Not one laugh
Not one mile
Not one quiet evening
If I could go back
I’d leave every moment exactly where it was
And I’d live it again
The same way
With you

That’s what stays
You behind me in the kitchen
Your hand near mine in the car
Your laughter beside me
And summer moving slowly
above us