Walking across campus
flashing eyes toward
each other
as fall leaves fell
and campus bundled
up for a long winter
of learning to love
and loving to learn
about each other
a first winter of
fingers joining,
and fighting cautiously
around what he meant when
and
does he like what,
and trying each
other’s favorites—
my burger place
your Thursday night bar
my Italian restaurant
your TV shows—
and the snow from
a cold winter sky
fell over two new
lovers.
NOTES:
April 14, 2019:
"(from NaPoWriMo prompt: write a poem that incorporates homophones, homographs, and homonyms, or otherwise makes productive use of English’s ridiculously complex spelling rules and opportunities for mis-hearings and mis-readings.) <Clearly this poem has nothing to do with this prompt. I started trying to respond to it, but the poem took a turn and I went with it and ended up here. So, that's where we are.>"
April 9, 2022:
Posted to @andjeter on Twitter to celebrate our school's first ever Queer Prom!