archives for Friday 29 September 2006
friday refrain (from a former professor)
Friday 29 September 2006 | I like a cookie
SUMMER 1983 — Mary Jo Salter
None of us remembers these, the days
when passing strangers adored us at first sight,
just for living, or for rolling down the street;
praised all our given names; begged us to smile…
You, too, in a little while,
my darling, will have lost all this,
asked for a kiss will give one, and learn
how love […]
