for the dream you can't forget

for starting over

for the equinox

for the lunch table

for 'read later'

for the bookmark folder called 'read later'

for blindsight

for the restless

for 3am thoughts

for snow days

for the window seat

for the app you deleted

for the notification you ignored

for second thoughts

for the beta

for the first night in a new city

for poems that became grocery lists

for homesickness

for the thing in the junk drawer you might need someday

for the street that brought it all back

for the fish tank

for people who miss blogspot

for the house you grew up in

for the space between

for the field trip

for the Sunday scaries

for the small talk that became deep talk

for crossed-out words

for people who write 'I should write more' and then close the notebook

for the thing you couldn't return

for the future you imagined at fifteen

for the calm after

for small talk

for giving up

for the answer you're afraid to hear

for early risers

for code comments

for weeds

for the pet you grew up with

for the click of the lock

for bold text

for the spectrum

for the closet you hid in as a kid

for doodles

for the marginalia

for the rules you made up

for chosen family

for february

for lunch breaks

for manifestos

for the group chat that never sleeps

for the voice you're forgetting

for complaints never filed

for anniversaries you forgot

for the bug you can't reproduce

for the playlist for no one

for apology-drafters

for the snow day

for the river

for doing nothing

for people who run toward things

for the mix CD

for typos you left on purpose

for the thing you published too soon

for the thing on your desk you can't explain

for the thing you found while looking for something else

for the gap year

for one more line

for the reckless risk

for the lake at dawn

for bus rides

for letting it go

for the lyric you got tattooed

for the grocery store at 11pm

for people you see every day but never talk to

for the song on repeat

for the weekend with nothing to do

for boredom

for the wedding

for detours

for the reunion

for knowing the difference

for intrusive thoughts

for your future self

for the deep breath

for the golden hour

for the outfit you wore on the best day

for the box from two moves ago

for the version of you that exists in other people's stories

for presentations

for the film you've seen twelve times

for people on chapter one for three years

for the last snowfall

for the participation trophy

for the conversation you rehearsed

for former bloggers

for the name you were given

for the walk that cleared your head

for the evening without screens

for finally writing it down

for the photograph you almost deleted

for the app you redownloaded

for people who write letters they'll never send and feel better anyway

for the phrase your grandmother used

for the inside joke

for the dream you can't remember

for the notes app

for the apology

for autumn leaves

for overcast afternoons

for angry tears

for what's past the edge

for quiet joy

for the idiom that makes perfect sense

for the friend you lost touch with

for birthdays

for the fist bump

for the thing you're about to write

for the turbulence

for the bathroom stall

for the lost decade

for the bio you keep changing

for the wrong turn

for the border crossing

for the numbness

for the thing you're writing right now

for the thing you found

for the success no one noticed

for the poem you didn't know was a poem

for the gap between thoughts

for prologues

for the landing

for confessions

for strangers who smiled at you

for the friend who texts back immediately

for the smell that brought it all back

for the dead battery

for notebooks you never finished

for the bed you can't sleep in

for the almost knowable

for the book with someone else's notes

for the thing you lost

for the nap that fixed everything

for the username you've had since you were thirteen

for reply guys

for version two

for the hot shower

for the city you moved to

for the awkward wave

for the thing you kept for no reason