oh, and it’s Valentines day too.
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a love poem
I caught your glance
and offered a small gift
which you refused.
an apple,
a token, to toe
the water.
another month and you would acquiesce
to my teenaged display of nerves.
I was twenty-three
you were soft and scared
and thinking I’d meant to use you
but I’d love you instead.
you humored me
answering every question
I had.
you were twenty-five
and I knew, over coffee
that first night
at Denny’s,
our life would be braved
unknown
together.
the platitudes of willful resemblance 