Maisy Mansell-Warren Lost and Found
You smoothed out dark ripples in water,
made twinkling lights brighter, fuller of brimming hope that blustered in the space between our windstruck skin and hovered in dusty moonlight shining through your window.
You mapped hills and paved corners, treading memory into shortcuts as I stumbled between my life and some beautiful deepblue sideways of chiming clocks spinning in starry darkness.
You etched secrets of planets / pastry / language / bars hidden in your adolescence, bitter pints, hand in hand, me lost, you found in a cobblestonecity I made a home in.
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