from

one summer

seeing you, to seeing southern California, the
stores, the glamour, the beaches, the
commercialism. And you, you had to cart me away
with your religious troops to the wilderness,
leaving me at the campsite while you went off
to church. And I sat there for days,
watching us, watching us
become bloodthirsty, we were trying to
hurt each other, we were
like animals, you starting your life with me in tow.
And I saw the redwood forests.

4.
Douglas. I never imagined how beautiful the
east coast could be, rolling hills curling one state
into another. We’d drive up a hill in your
truck and I would lift my head, my chin as high as I could
in anticipation to try to see
the other side, the sloping down of those hills.
I remember walking along the beach
in Maine, restored buildings lining
the rocky shore, the fog so thick
you couldn’t see fifty feet in front of you. And people
were suntanning. And I photographed the
lighthouse - how do they work in the fog
like this?
It’s so thick, thick like the cigarette smoke coming from
the inside of your truck when we would drive
to antique shops in New Hampshire. Thick, like a
powerful force overcoming someone, that
holds you there, that doesn’t let go. Like us.

kuypers

thic poem Copyright Janet Kuypers.

OEUVRE

Janet Kuypers
http://www.JanetKuypers.com
JKuypers@scars.tv
ISBN# 1-891470-22-1
$16.22

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