She moved to Seattle in '99,
Poet, Lover, bar-hopper,
bought an apartment on 4th avenue.
She wrote poems for the papers.
She'd leave work early, coffee in hand,
and sit in the park to watch the leaves turn.
An auburn lake, mist creeping onto her lap,
Tartan skirt and Turtle-neck weather.
Only 22, She grew Sunflowers
and traded them for milk at the local convenience store.
She had big hopes for a job in Chicago,
but turned it down when she met the bartender
that suddenly changed her mind about bar-hopping.
They bought a little yellow house in Mirrormont,
and the leaves from the state park
drifted lazily into their yard of sunflowers,
which she no longer needed to trade for milk.
She'd moved to Seattle in '99,
as an English girl with too little time.