Come Again Soon

There was a summer

when we listened to only Van Morrison

when we picked strawberries on the farm

forty-five minutes to the south

when the metal sweetness of blood and berries filled my mouth.

"Variation On A Theme" Etc

This poem is formatted based on "since feeling is first" by e.e. cummings.

so, folks...its not exactly all original. you know.

since love's a three pedaled piano

who minds or notices that one note plays muted

softer than the others

velvety and slow

slow to be a youth

when time is a crooked smile

my chin tips

and pride is far better than humility

than naivety

darling i pray to every breath-blown dandelion don't leave

--the tender fear of my limbs is more than

the practiced art of your hands which play

loud and echoed: then

crane your neck, let me kiss your adam's apple

for love's not a pedal to be pushed

and ambition is a feel-good excuse.

Humid

The day has rusted

with immobility

and anger.

Pulling Minimum Wage

"Take me off your mailing list for kids who think it still exists."

Throbs

(via The Sartorialist). 

The loneliness ached like a sore thumb

shut in the passenger door of a midnight Dunkin Donuts parking lot

in a college town

and

on the long drive

(the speakers soft and filled with strangled static)

you crinkled up and cried all the way home

while your father talked on the phone.

Cried All Day

"Take It Easy (Love Nothing)"

"Now I do as I please and I lie through my teeth

Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me

I should probably feel cheap but I just feel free

And a little bit empty

No, it isn't so hard to get close to me

There will be no arguments

we will always agree

And I will try to be kind when I ask you to leave

We'll both take it easy

But if you stay too long inside my memory

I will trap you in a song tied to a melody

and I will keep you there so you can't bother me."

-Conor Oberst

For Comfort

Jordanna Laman; thank you for this photograph.

Kettering

I choked out that it wasn't necessarily a tipping point

but even as I said that,

I felt myself tip.

Perspective

"In the scheme of things. You are who you are, right now."

Indulgent

You asked me to smile once,

so that my dimples would show.

When I did,

you kissed each one

Sweet and Slow.

Prom.

Yeah, it's probably a good thing I'm not going to Prom after all.

Sam Weir and I have way too much in common when it comes to dance moves.