'Limerance' by Kaitlyn Schott

by Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

I’m in love with limerence,

and marooned from reality.

The heartsick air smells

less of morning petrichor

and more like peanut dust

and wood varnish.

Kaitlyn Schott is a twenty-six year old poet from Los Angeles who has been writing since she was sixteen.