ten years ago I was thin. I remember the lover I met ten years before then. ten years later was nowhere to be seen. Five years later had yet to happen. I can remember the freezing winter of 1996. It was just like yester day. I miss the creamy cotton futon tucked quietly in my private curtained alcove entryway, all sheets calmly milky, my studio littered by inspiration found outside along Warwick Street. Life was easy, I'd only loved one man for real. He'd loved me just enough to leave me in tact. Ten years later from ten years from that, I've been left twice, and left with one who stays. All the while wanting the man meant for God and an angel.