Top to Bottom. Bottom to Top.

1. I left the door the way you liked it
2. half-open, half a question
3. the suitcase still smells like that last summer
4. before I knew what summer meant
5. you said nothing, which was everything
6. the porch light burning for no one
7. I counted the steps so I wouldn't look back
8. there are seven, I still know
9. the key goes under the mat, always
10. some habits survive the people who made them
11. I thought grief was a direction
12. it turns out it is a weather
13. you will not find me where you left me
14. the room has been rearranged, on purpose
15. I kept the window and the light that comes through it
16. I let the rest go slowly
17. what I carry now fits in my hands
18. it was never the leaving
19. it was the moment before
20. when the door was still warm

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