for the hiding spot no one found

for margins full of notes

for the outfit no one complimented

for 'I'll remember this'

for the thing you grew into

for the deep breath before you start

for the profile you curated

for the coin in the fountain

for hospital waiting rooms

for the lesson you had to learn twice

for the painting you stared at too long

for the silence after the music stops

for the contradiction you are

for people you miss

for the poem you forgot

for wishlists that became plans

for Post-it notes

for the first warm day

for the sunrise you almost missed

for not letting it go yet

for Sunday evenings

for blindsight

for the procrastination

for the receipt from that night

for the last day

for scribblers

for the last word

for the heat wave

for the draft on your phone

for dreamers

for reminders you ignored

for the notification you ignored

for the bookmark folder called 'read later'

for the long weekend

for the attic

for middle children especially

for food you pretend to like

for print

for former bloggers

for the failure

for winter silence

for the poem you didn't know was a poem

for the argument for both

for the comment you almost left

for the film you watched alone

for staying down a little longer

for doing nothing

for the answer you're afraid to hear

for the missed deadline

for the footnotes

for the bird at 5am

for tomorrow

for people who talk to their plants

for the playlist that replaced the mix CD

for this

for finally writing it down

for the job you got fired from

for the nod

for the last date

for notes-to-self

for people who miss blogspot

for recurring dreams

for the thing you're writing right now

for the things you can't undo

for the app you redownloaded

for the voice you're forgetting

for the thing you actually did

for the poem you memorized

for the epiphany on the subway

for the book you never finished reading

for page one

for the language you're forgetting

for the lump in your throat

for the quiet failure

for the long way around

for people who say 'I'll just jot this down' and write three pages

for the cold plunge

for the sound of a pen on paper

for the leap

for typos you left on purpose

for actual armchair owners

for the Oxford comma debate

for the fort made of couch cushions

for the draft in your notes app at 3am

for the beginning

for the day nothing happened

for the grey area

for the mid-life crisis

for the thing you googled at 3am

for vows

for the clothes you keep anyway

for the almost-right word

for the calculated risk

for the goodbye you didn't get

for the dream you can't forget

for bold text

for the lunch table

for version zero

for the tab you've had open for weeks

for the dandelion in the crack

for stillness

for the film you've seen twelve times

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

for notebooks you never finished

for rainy days

for the bed you can't sleep in

for the voicemail you saved for years

for third thoughts

for FIXME comments

for the thing you found

for version one

for the argument you lost in real life

for people who think faster than they type

for the routine you can't live without

for the thing you wish you hadn't said

for the mix CD

for the door you left unlocked

for the city you moved to

for the afternoon without plans

for the small talk that became deep talk

for the book with the folded corner

for never-lovers

for the person you're becoming

for the bug you can't reproduce

for whispering in lowercase

for holding on a little longer

for the unsubscribe

for people who journal but won't call it that

for the caffeinated

for the pause

for apology-drafters

for complaints never filed

for the fish tank

for letter-writers

for anxiety

for the person you were

for the lesson you still haven't learned

for people who write in pen

for the first day at the new place

for the map you needed

for cloudless skies

for the phrase your grandmother used

for the knock on wood

for joy

for the relief

for the thaw

for the laugh that comes from nowhere

for the meaning of the dream

for the connecting flight

for the dream that felt real