THINKING OF YOU
The following is poem number 4 of 2009′s NaPoWriMo – 30 poems in 30 days during the month of April. The original prompt was, “when I write”.
THINK OF YOU
You wonder how your hat wound up here, the way
your lip curls before you sneeze. If I said
I invented you, would you believe me? Confuse me
for something that could do such a thing?
It’s not that I asked for any of this – I woke
under water, my lungs could only hold so much
before I sucked you in. Imagine if I could
take us back to the fort we built in your yard
that summer the cat ran off, back when you hated
your braces and we mistreated the neighbor kid
with his lazy gaze. Would you ask me to change you?
Go ahead. I have everything we need.
Tags: a poem a day, NaPoWriMo 2009, national poetry writing month, Portland poetry
