Untitled, from the archives

I've taken off
the clothes you gave me
and gone running
through life's sprinklers
feeling the cool wet grass
beneath my yearning toes.
I stayed outside, completely raw
for as long as the sunlight
dared
to stay with me, and in
the the setting darkness, I
dried off in the towels
of independance
and I flung back my head
and laughed with the moon
as a thousand stars

winked back at us flirtatiously.

-2/10/97

-XOXO,