bits of love #28

Habitation

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:

The edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
               the unpainted stars
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire.

 

Sept 22, 2001
i met ethan today.  i can just say ethan- no need to mention his last name- one, because i cannot remember it (which is odd because i was rehearsing introducing myself earlier today) and two, because he is most likely the last ethan i will meet that merits any notes in this book.  i am mentioning him now because i immediately like him.  he had perfect hair color, brown with bits of red...

August 10, 2002
i am 100% completely utterly and overwhelmingly in love with ethan.