Things That Have Been Ours

a list

the colder the weather, the more you want to walk

Things that have been ours, a list:

Thirty-five years each,
Sixteen years together,
fourteen married.

Five cars,
Three apartments,
Two houses.

Two families, made one in a red-carpeted church
Two parents, made hers in a gray-carpeted courtroom

(we leave both in a cloud of bubbles)

Two hands, ours, hold two hands, hers.

Two washing machines,
One dryer.

One dog, small,
One kid, tall (so tall!)

Ours, all.

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Thanks for reading! I’m Katie, reader, teacher, new-ish mom, wife, and (embracing the word) writer. I believe we all have stories to tell & I love how poems distill complex ideas and emotions into their essential form. Sometimes I write both. Find me on Instragram, occasionally, @lightlyliterary.

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This post is part of a blog hop with Exhale—an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Click here to view the next post in the series "Ours".

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