I remember shiny lip gloss
And full lips
The first day I met you.
I thought that someone with such a pretty mouth
Would never be friends with someone like me.
But you took a photo of the two of us
On your Kodak digital camera.
Somehow, I was friends with
A girl with a beautiful mouth and pale eyes.
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 7:01 PM UTC
You used to tug the skin on your neck
While you cleared your throat.
Dad said it was a nervous habit.
What were you nervous about?
Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 6:57 PM UTC
I decided you were in love with me
Because you stuttered
When we had a reading activity together
In fourth period.
Sep 25, 2020
Sep 25, 2020 at 2:48 PM UTC
I said I didn’t like you when I first met you,
Because I didn’t trust the way you moved your hands.
(Your fingers moved too gently and beautifully.)
But one day, when I had to play softball in P.E.,
I kept striking out.
You showed me, with your hands,
How to hold the bat.
Your hands guided mine and showed me what to do.
After that, how could I hate your hands?
Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020 at 2:16 PM UTC
We used to sit in the sun
on an old mattress behind the church house.
We talked about our families,
and about our Sunday school lessons.
Sometimes we told jokes our Sunday school teachers
would not have approved of.
But when our other friends found us,
I pretended that I never laughed at our jokes,
even though I had.
Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 12:24 AM UTC
I decided I was in love with you
because you told me it was okay
that I struck out every time in baseball,
and because you didn't pick me last
when you were team captain.
But why was that all it took
for me to declare my love for a boy?
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 5:55 PM UTC
I had a favorite shirt
with pictures of cute dogs on it.
But you told me
that girls shouldn't wear shirts like that to church
because it wasn't pretty enough.
I never wore it to church again.
I never wore it again.
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC
You took me to the very upstairs of the church,
and then even higher
to the bell tower,
where we pulled the rope and sounded the bell
after church was over. Then we ran away
and hid under the pews.
We must have been good hiders, because
we never got in trouble.
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 5:38 PM UTC
All I remember about you
is your first name
and that I laughed at you a lot.
But you were a little mean.
I didn't even think you were funny,
but I felt like I had to laugh.
Why did I feel like I had to laugh?
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 5:35 PM UTC
You were the only boy I knew,
so I figured we would probably have to get married
and that was all I knew.
We used to hide in the bushes behind your house
And pretend we were married.
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 at 5:22 PM UTC