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[addy]

I love the tenderness you approached this piece with. It was great to read over again and again. I have just a few suggestions that you might consider helpful should you edit

I hope you remember
the first words
we gave away, It's a solid set-up to what comes after, but I can't help but feel this is the weakest stanza. It didn't grab me that much by itself

cast from our comfortable shores
with tiny sails blown by
our lips Such a lovely image

sent to find a home
in each other's recesses,
any empty cabinets
or drawers.

I hope you remember
because I don't;

drawn to their sound
I set them free every night,
like buds to a petal OK, this is a really lovely image!

and like buds to a petal,
eventually, there is just nothing You can get rid of "just", imo.
to let go.

The search ended without a whimper.
Every shelf was cleared. Anything
that could be moved
was moved

until there was nothing left to do I don't think "nothing" should be used so close to "anything" (a few lines above); The combination makes the lines read as obvious/ bland, when by rights they shouldn't be
but put all the other words, Is "other" needed?
fights, silences,
back in their boxes
like a set of bones
without a skull. A very nice ending. As a minor, minor nitpick, how about "without a head", to make it softer? Or even "missing its head". It's wonderful as is, though.