veins and verities
{snippets and stories #4}
I was thinking the other day about the way you used to mock the girl who fancied herself a writer. (It wasn’t me). And that made me wonder if you ever wrote anything at all, and I guessed the answer to be no.
I’m glad we never run into each other, glad there’s no need to fill awkward silences with pleasantries as we stand on dirty sidewalks. Besides, you wouldn’t recognize me, I’ve become a new person three times since we last met. Just now, I’m becoming another.
I’ve still got that chink in my side and those veins on my legs, but I think I’ve grown a bit taller. My knees are wrinkled and my lips are crinkled and I’m still holding hope like a seed.
I planted the moon a long time ago, watched it vine up the side of one leg. It only ever bloomed in the dark, and I laughed at how quickly we twisted.
You ran away from my laughter and I howled until tears lit my face.
That was my very first garden.
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August 18th, 2015 at 7:33 pm
Wow! So grateful for this. So often you capture my own feelings.
August 21st, 2015 at 9:27 am
Nice.
Again the garden imagery/the planting.
You know you should pick one of these and have someone design an animation to it while you read. This one obviously has a different context, but there is an overcoming to it. Of living beyond what other people think.
August 23rd, 2015 at 3:29 am
the last two lines give me chills ~