home hums to me
and these warm-yellow glows
paint traces of things missed,
things I can no longer name.

we used to trade secrets on condensed breath
but that was march, before the cold
yet somehow their warmth still lingers on.

now ghosts fingerprint my window
as I try to figure out if they were ever really there.

was I ever there?

- Gabriel Lima Jacinto, Condensation (D.B.W)