Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Recipe for a Love Story (First Course)

Water bottles and waterfalls
Dancing for hours and going to balls
Flowers in shoes and little toys too
Buildings of glass and slippers of glue

Great distance hallways and great distance walls
Scaling ironclad fences with anonymous calls
Graveyard shifts and cemetery nights
Damaging cars after long-distance flights

Bright orange trucks and dark red squares
Beautiful bathtubs with broken chairs
Forbidden cities and strawberry shores
Labors in love and fliers on doors

Christmas traditions that cleave both ways
Serendipity and perfect days
Sitting on the floor in the heat of the night
Candles for warmth rather than light

Times Square and time squared
Sandwiches finished and sandwiches shared
Nesting sparrows and nesting dolls
Air force hospitals and army crawls

Arches in sunlight and spires in the moonlight
Happily ever comes after midnight
Unexpected songs and Broadway plays
Swimming with dolphins, enchanting bat rays

Pig war beaches and sea lion caves
Big yellow buses and tiny hand waves
Arenas on fire and werewolves with fountains
Skidding off roads and running down mountains

Seven thousand three hundred days
Endless nights and countless ways
A love story that knows no end
A trail of tomorrows about to begin