Literature
with the windows way down
afternoon thoughts of copper
and sunshine. I want to dance the ghost
and love a girl with red hair and freckles
however you love a girl
with red hair and freckles.
slow dance, slow dance,
moonlight clichés we are all hoping, secretly,
happen outside the movies.
now we can be better
than actors.
and these things are the things I sing to myself
with the windows way down, driving
over the burnside bridge-
that "made in oregon" sign standing there,
effortlessly iconic. the way I know now
love is from the outside,
even without that red light
only on in the winter.
I am waiting for snow,
I am waiting for white flakes in her
red hair. simple th