Friday, February 15, 2008

thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2008


I wrote this last night, while I was at The Tea Place, studying.


If I stay here alone past six-thirty, I'll begin to look like a loser. Oh well. Tim and I would have felt uncomfortably like we were supposed to act in a dreadful prole movie if we had gone out tonight. There would have been too many people making out all around us, and they would have looked like mating sheep or something. I would have inevitably mentioned it. Better for the health and happiness of the general public that we stay holed up in our respective rooms and see each other on Saturday instead. We're going to visit the conservatory. I like that boy a lot.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

now

now beginnings!

now that I am
patched up,
something to say,
pleasant to go
you may see me standing

in the weak winter square
fluttering
like the fingers of the wind
in a cotton shirt

you say that
I am pale
and small and tough
from growing
through a long ordeal

right you are!
I am beautiful
my backbone is
There