And so you chose Emerald City. Who wouldn’t, really? With its charming vistas and valleys and standalone Starbucks? Lattés everywhere you turn like a giant, dizzying field of poppies? Here in Kansas, what can I give you but barbecues in Auntie Em’s backyard and lemonade stands and endless, utter devotion? No contest, really. I offer …
The Fall. (Blogtober #3)
The Fall There’s a crack in your sweet autumn heart. Gone are the crisp nights and burgundy leaves that filtered through– now your heart bears dust, ashes, and the hard soil of the ground. I wanted to kiss that heart; now I must bury it. But I will kiss it anyway, along with the very …
Roads.
I took the long way home. We met at Infatuation Highway and I should have left you there when you held my heart merely on the surface of your hand and not in your shirt pocket, where it deserved to be, right next to your beating heart. I took the long way home. I waited …
dancing.
you don’t want my charleston, my waltz or my shimmy, but you keep drowning me with your jive.
In the Corner of the Center of Your World.
so I revolve around your world, do I? the gravitational pull within your cosmos? believe what you want, dearest, but I fear the truth is shinier than the stars above your supposedly impassioned head. here I am, in the corner of the center of your world, relegated to afterthought, vague memory, the fabric of a …
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Dignity.
Little one, you won't find dignity in the App Store of your latest iPhone, and it's not discoverable in those awful videos with those sad girls who writhe around on the hoods of those expensive cars. Dignity is in the quiet clench of your strong jaw when you are studying. So study. Dignity is in …
This Square Peg. 