Photograph With My Hair Long

Photograph With My Hair Long


1.
Spin the sun back to when anticipation loomed like windmills. Fleets of 20-somethings wandered the suburbs from FOR RENT sign to FOR RENT sign. There's antiques in them thar hills. When all of the best things were made by children in foreign countries. Spatulas had clocks in them, radios even. All our cars were clean. Time was something we'd never waded through; the days had yet to stain our clothes.


2.
Spin the sun back to when anticipation loomed
like windmills.
Fleets of 20-somethings wandered the suburbs
from FOR RENT sign to FOR RENT sign.
There's antiques in them thar hills.
When all of the best things were made
by children in foreign countries.
Spatulas had clocks in them, radios even.
All our cars were clean.
Time was something we'd never waded through;
the days had yet to stain our clothes.


CL Bledsoe

Posted over on Word Riot
1. Cortney's prose poem
2. Line breaks by Glenn Buttkus