As I studied your language I studied your body— your vowels and diphthongs, your consonant clusters which are famously difficult for us foreigners to pronounce.

I don’t like the way you read and I don’t mean aloud. I mean you read too fast, too facilely, too faithlessly. I mean we

I’m an English major, okay? So when you say okay and that’s all you say in response to my much longer email about you and

I saw him today in the Public Garden walking briskly and alone, all bundled up against the snow and against the fact that you don’t