tawny olive skin enveloped her attenuated profile
one windy day in May as
"Black Velvet" radiated from sea-foam green
convertible windows
parked off the carpeted Appalachian freeway
peering out onto Meadowmont Village
one Chapel Hill afternoon
years ago, I recall
southern hair spread out
'cross breeze driven Carolinian skies
crisp evergreen incantations
reverberated throughout
back cottonwoods
filled with blackjack trees
tinseled in seaweed brine
hung like Raleigh county mistletoe
decades ago
we kissed
below
What a pair of
maple eyes
that tranquil evening
I plunged myself deep within
the incurable marrow of her being
celestial firmaments opened wide above
our youths arboreal spectrum
water colored skylines
suggested
terrestrial undertones
somewhere along eastern ocean perimeters
I threw my seed down
she
initially attended UNC
at the cusp of the technological millennium
much later on
misplaced herself
somewhere
between
viridescent briers of her
step forefathers
whom
tarheeled and feathered her
one early morn outside
the local abortion clinic
oh well
we were young
then
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