Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “Morning meditation”
[Text ID: “Thirsty now, heart rate’s up as I yearn for your touch. / Hands reaching, a co-dependent leech, I need you. I need you, / so I know I am alive. I pause to catch my breath and linger in our / time together, sprawling millions of miles— a whole decade of us.”]













