By jill (jills@wam.umd.edu)
Date: 27 October 1999

200 Miles

your face flushed red after having sex
(because that's all it was)
the white tee shirts, like a uniform
(because that's all they were)
the feeling of your hand on my back
(because that's all it took)
the little looks
(because i never knew what you were thinking)
the vodka cranberries
(because that's what got me in trouble)
the wooden bar at pennington's
(because the grain ran crooked like us)
room 1615
(because that's where it was consumated)
those krispy kreme doughnuts
(because you swore they were heavenly)
the gestures, the effort
(because they went away)
brooklyn
(because you were there)
your grey sweatpants
(because i would kill for them)
the cheesy hotel blanket 
(because it's mine and all i have to cry into now)
the bridges we saw
(because you took me there)
summer
(because you took me there)
alone
(because you took me there)