March 2012
February 2012
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eight7central asked: darling, you amaze me.
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Young One (draft three)
for Jackson
You were born in a bedroom of Steve’s old house. I think it was by a grocery store. He was still walking then. I was shut quiet on the windowsill for most of your birth, but woke all lemon rind curls & couldn’t wait to hold you. I knew you were something important. I knew you’d be a boy from the start of it all. No one believed me, but I did. We are bodies built of the finest...
it’s really neat how time works, how things that used to consume you don’t anymore and people you used to love and then forced yourself to hate are now just people you can have small conversations with, absent of hurt, and be happy for each other about the ways you now occupy your time.