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Jane Stephens Rosenthal Cooke's avatar

So much beauty in here. Those loves we hold on to those loves we outgrow. God the one that hurts that we have to let go of or we will grow crooked - just for out of one of those. The first one that I have a picture of. 2009 in his white shirts not looking at me hunched over his typewriter - my only you really even when he is all different men. The one on the beach with the sand in the kitchen. The beach I take my daughter too that was ours and then ours and then ours.

Erin Rose Belair's avatar

My only you. God isn’t that the truth. thank you xoxo

Emily Graf's avatar

Beautiful. I have also tried this: “I try to collapse all the men I have ever loved into a singular you—it’s more gorgeous that way—and then write a poem. But the poem doesn’t come.”

Erin Rose Belair's avatar

Always trying though. Thank you for being here xoxo

chelsea bird's avatar

Yesss, the ‘you’ hardly ever remains a consistent person for me either. Gorgeous as usual. I think our hearts ache the same way. 🩵

Erin Rose Belair's avatar

They absolutely do

Jill Prendergast's avatar

Two lines keep tugging: /For him, even a piece of me has always been something to love./ And /What does love look like when you have a whole life of it?/ These open up whole portals for me.

Erin Rose Belair's avatar

I love a good portal xoxo