Carlita

I am Carly
"The thousand places I can think of us together,
today at three-thirty and fifty-five degrees,
some spring slipped past the winter warden,
and I wanted to be driving, windows down, music blaring
and have a place on your neck that I've never seen,
turned towards the blurred buildings, the ugly shrubs,
the paint-chipped lampposts, your neck catching the light of that bright winter afternoon."
"Once I only believed in beginnings,
my wishes were horses the richest man could never afford
my wishes were planets that never existed
my wishes were elements that refused to coincide,"
"When I first loved, I loved like a lunatic
my socks embroidered with thorns and pine needles
the bottom of my lungs, tiny flight fires.
you will mourn the loss of lunatic love
whether or not you miss the lunatic or the lunatic misses you."
-Ali Liebgott