and rambling

i'm thinking about things like

paper and glue and chapter two

for me and you and patting heads

and patting backs and kissing cheeks

and cheering and screaming and

linked arms for pictures on a football

field and stadium lights glowing and

glowing all of their faces shining

and relieved and happy and flowers

from parents and onlooking siblings

and cousins glowing happy and

flowers. i'm thinking about sleeping

in a pile of clothes on my bed and

flipping through vogue when work

is slow and scribbling french questions

and red lipstick and black and leah

and how did she like paris. i'm thinking

about summer tans and beers in the

backyard barefoot and concerts and

cemeteries and grass and city skylines

and smog and early mornings with

the sun in my bedroom and happy

birthdays and plum apple cheek kisses

and wavy hair and adventure books

and looks and cook books and world

harvest baskets of food and good

moods and rambling and rambling

and rambling and rambling and

rambling