bright brown irises
maybe a little too wide-eyed (available)
hair golden heartbreak. still
Duquesne University and Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
were places he’d been, he told her
requesting the next dance
there’s more than lightness afoot
driving these distances. Attraction, see,
flashes into conflict
“Quakers. They believe in Jesus, don’t they?” is how
she starts revealing she’s Jewish, from New York City,
but Ohio Boy steps back instead of forward, and misses
a third muses, “Relationships are weird. Always weird,”
while wondering if she’s sufficiently brainy to stay him
or just what he might be lacking
all the same, they cover their aces and wild cards,
map their terrain, and
reach out in the music for someone
Poem copyright 2016 by Jnana Hodson
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