 Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts (YesYes Books, 2021). She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, Cincinnati Review, Muzzle, Salt Hill, Verse Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. You can find her running, playing baseball, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh, PA, on Twitter and Instagram @lisasumme, and at lisasumme.com. On Polyamory
When you said it’s like a door that’s always locked, I said we’ll climb through every window. When I built a ladder, when each rung crumbled as I climbed, when I fell to the ground, when I built more ladders, when I fell to the ground again, you met me there, again & again, every time, in the dying grass, in the rain, in the rubble, all winter, & it was there, where we couldn’t stop looking at each other, & so we didn’t, so we stopped climbing, built a house we cut the keys to instead of breaking into one someone else had built, the bricks of it everything I tried to cling to every time I fell: the perfect pillow of your cheek on my thigh, the shirt you leave in my bed when I won’t see you for a week, your towel I leave hanging in the bathroom like you’ll still be here tomorrow.
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