It's Still Life

Don’t Recall His Name But I Remember

Him. Up there,
sitting on the school bleachers,

king of it all,
lean as James Dean

slipped in-between day dreams.
Him, buttoned into blue jeans,

tight white t-shirt, and
hair slick as a snail’s streak.

He didn’t see me wearing my
pink poodle skirt.

for dVerse Quadrille #79 “Up” and Twiglet #125 “A Snail’s Slick”