“if you believe in fairies”

Found this while I as I was procrastinating by going through my writing folder instead of editing the novel like I should be, and thought it worth putting up.

Peter at 32

2 am – the after
after party – and he’s down
in the Village
with a smile
and a corporate expense account, still dressed
in standard office-wear:
trousers and a Eurotrash
button-down;

“Darling!”
he says
to a girl in a
mini-skirt, air kisses
above
her cheeks, putting
a hand on her ass
and guiding her out to
a cab.  He blanks on the directions to his loft
a moment – third
street to the left? – but the cabbie
has a GPS on the dash.

She will leave before
he wakes up,
and he, head pounding, will lie
back against the pillows
and clap.

If on a winter’s night…

I am standing on the corner of Park and the wind blows through my coat like it is nothing. Like I am nothing.

I get home and begin to shed layers, shed this winter-girl-snake-skin: scarf, gloves, hat, coat, blazer, socks, leggings.

The sun comes in my window an extra hour now. It is not enough.

Underneath the lawn by the Binnenhof in Den Haag, the crocus and the daffodils are whispering to each other, asking if it’s time yet, if it’s time yet, is it time?

The tulips, clutching their finery tightly about themselves, whisper back, “Soon.”