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(This is Not a) Sestina

from Partly Sunny​/​Partly Cloudy by Run-On Sunshine

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Picture: Whiteaker neighborhood, Eugene, Oregon, July 2012.

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Sestina! Your parents were not drawn to verse poetry; combined names of aunts from both sides of family. Sestina! Details flowed non-stop upon first chance meeting, like mutual desire for distant traveling.

I proposed a trip if we could leave in two weeks: through the desert and up the west coast we’d see! We brought a tent but two sleeping bags in case, then huddled into one among the Joshua trees!

Sleeping beneath the redwoods we were all kisses. Enamored with each other’s every little thing: My observing that I turned to song parodies brought your sweet elfin laugh that was so endearing.

Sestina! We’ve barely said words since leaving Medford now. Checking into hostel, then Eugene we walk round. Sestina! Under trees, down by tracks, in Whiteaker say:
My songs are annoying, well your laugh it now grates.

Locked together in motion we drank us too fast. The thrill and deflation of relationship compressed! Back at the hostel to our room with just one bed, in tears break it off fall asleep at our own ends!

For the best, I want a wandering never ending. Dream you of smaller trips, bring two baby seats. I know as we share no more than space temporary, you will easily find a better boy than me. Sestina!

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from Partly Sunny​/​Partly Cloudy, released April 19, 2014

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