poetry

This is an older poem, first published in 1996 in an anthology titled Almost Touching, which was a collaboration edited by Margo LaGattuta and published by Plain View Press, featuring the short stories and poems of eleven writers. We worked together writing and editing at Margo's for one year. It was a project I am proud to be in, and it sold well, although I still have two boxes of the books in my garage! The anthology is available at a discount from my book page.

SMILE, BABY

Snapshot smiles beam
of first love--
a long haired boy
in embroidered jeans hugs
a polkadot mini-clad me;
rose-tinted granny glasses
perch on my shining face
that turns to his
like a flower to the sun.

I see the playful ecstacy
that rocked me seasick,
his wild antics and loopy
screaming love
dizzy as the car and me
spinning donuts crazy
in the snow.

Our insides flipped
in his dad's old Rambler
slammed into fifth gear
airborne over the dip
in Hillside Road and
from each kiss
deep enough
to swallow whole
like I did the dream
of always and forever.

We were drunk
with love love love
and Ripple, such
wide-eyed smiles
a shutter-blink ago.

Published in Almost Touching