Boise summer

Suppose she breaks up with you
again: a dashed-off note, a voicemail,
a text. A declaration through a social
media dance. Braless, free. She has music
now & a viral routine. Suppose she ghosts
you as she did before. A disappearance
back to her checkout job in the hippy co-op
& swapping numbers with those blond
dreadlocked guys & that girl with the septum
ring & gold eyeliner. Or suppose she declares
herself celibate, asexual, nonbinary, queer.
She jokes about these identities with her friends
& sometimes with you when you share a bed
with her & she glances up from her phone
& says thank you for not leaving me.