1. August 9, 1986
2. exchanges of Jameson
and shoestring fries
3. parted, chapped lips
4. your girlfriend
5. collection
of magazines on trunk,
6. black lights
7. powder topped cigarettes
8. split ecstasy,
9. fumbling with ice cube trays
10. $75 plasma donation centers
11. blood banks,
colors, names matching tags
12. howling “Somebody to Love”, one eyeing
interstate
13. mini baggies stashed in dollars
stashed in weeks old pants
14. tangled limbs
15. I read Virginia, you listened
16. exhales of I love you
17. crossed legs, heads resting in palms
18. shared craft beers
19. messages you didn’t write
20. ice broken down, mothers cancelled Visa
21. suboxone strips
22. mirrors
23. work bathrooms, bodies on bodies,
pressed to plaster wall
24. seizures next to dropped food
25. calculations of heroin consumed
26. backpack left
27. I met Roxy
28. you came, too
29. stored air released,
mistaken for a breath
30. obituaries
31. December 27, 2019
32. handing your glasses to chaplain
33. your needle, my finding.