crush – Reaching Joy

Lucky Charms

I think I want to write about you, now and how you weren’t just another girl off the street, like so many people I meet.I want candor, I want graceI want someone who walks and dances with some paceand on our mutual friend’s birthday, you did just that. You walked in: black, flared pants withContinue reading “Lucky Charms”

So High

I stare at you up on that pedestal I’ve been building brick by brick, so brightly you glow, so quickly you show me I can know love by where my heart goes. So why I am the one who says hello and you who says goodbye? Only in the middle do we meet, eyeContinue reading “So High”

Letting the Memory Settle

As we skipped rocks at Walden Pond in steady rain, you told me I just needed practice, that my outstretched hand needed to move in one single, continuous motion. You selected each stone with care, inspecting their flatness as if choosing flowers for a date, only to send them off into the gloom, certain ofContinue reading “Letting the Memory Settle”

Sun

You are a star in a sky I have not seen, you are a drop of rain in a hundred deserts and desserts because walking in the rain can be fun with ice cream and an umbrella, no? Your voice plants bits of light under my skin, your slender frame and well-styled hair have meContinue reading “Sun”

Assumptions

I assume you’re not gonna call back — trauma says, “Why would you? Don’t you see my flaws? Don’t you see my fears written out in flowers and bulbs?” Ballpoint pens do not lie like the rest of the world, like my mind hearing you say I am pretty, or I am adventurous, I am,Continue reading “Assumptions”

Gone

Can I fly by you like a fly on the wall stopping only to glimpse at your happenstance wait across the street for a girl that wasn’t me. Can you pick me up next weekend at eight me, in my blue dress black heels and dance with you until you see I can’t tell ifContinue reading “Gone”