

Julie's SmileWhen I was thirteen, our family moved from the city out to one of those suburban McMansion subdivisions called Kensington Woods. It was named after the woods that used to be there before the builders came in and leveled everything and built a hundred and four houses from the same seven blueprints, threw in a pool and a tennis court and called it a day. I hated the whole neighborhood. Still do, actually. Well, I hated the whole neighborhood with the exception of one spot, that is. If you walk down Juniper Drive from my house, down to where the pool is, and then go across the street and cut through the Harrisons backyard youJulie's Smile


The Day You Became RealThe day you became real, You sprang from my eye Out of the sky Out of fiction. I was terrified.The Day You Became Real
Before the day you became real, You were a comforting thought, A pleasant idea, A glowing figure seen only from the audience. I was robbed:
Because on the day you became real, Your soul climbed out of my head And grew two arms, Two legs, two ands And a you.
When you spoke your first word on the day you became real, You inhaled the sleepy air of afternoon A
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