Hearing hello found her meek, unsure, and wary. How are you? Her sparkling flow of wit dried up. Then bonjour spoke directly to her coeur.
Hearing hello found her meek, unsure, and wary. How are you? Her sparkling flow of wit dried up. Then bonjour spoke directly to her coeur.
Over breakfast he said: “I know you love me.” I wondered how he could know when I was still so unsure. I half smiled and sipped my cold tea.
Yu dangles the worm near her lips, tongues the air. The other kids dare her to eat it. She does. One day soon, the worms will get to eat Yu.
They are silhouetted against the western sky. He’s teaching her to fly a kite. I know when I’m not wanted, but I’m staying anyway.
“You’ll love Penny,” I told my then-new boyfriend. We were introducing each other to family and pals. So sad, he did.
For once in their marriage, he listened to her patiently. Sitting down, she started to pour out her heart, right in front of his tombstone.
“You’re just a baby,” he said in his twenty-four-year-old glory. “What could you know of making promises, at twenty?”