January 2012
December 2011
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we both know how the asymmetry of our hands means we’ll never fit together like a puzzle. your winter gloves fall down in the snow as you try to accommodate the uneven spaces my fingers provide. i’m sorry for the cold, with and without me.
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a little girl in a white dress cries,
fingers clenched around
nonexistent ribbons
of a helium balloon.
the carnival erupts around her
- dousing her in the ashes
of laughter and pink cotton candy.
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it’s morning.
we’re waiting for the sun
to set in St. Petersburg
so it can rise here.
we’re only waiting for an instant.
so many people say
they’ve seen a sunrise,
but it happens so fast.
blink and you’ve missed it.
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A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and...
– Lisa Kleypas (via whowearenow)