Winter 2024

Kind Of

I used to think that we were meant to be

You and I

And that's the way all good poems start


as we lay under the stars, bright and black

And trod through dewy grass, green

The cicadas chirped our praise

And the lake rippled our names

Together

It felt real then

real real,

Tell your mom kind of

Christmas together kind of

Share my secrets kind of

Marry you kind of

love


But I’ve been wrong before

And I’ll be wrong again

And that’s the way all good poems end