jus a lil personal

I flunked out of college. I flunked out with someone I very much loved, but shortly after that she moved home. A few months later she died in a car wreck. I wrote just one poem about her in the few months between departure and death, and I post it here because I can.

To Carrie

I thought about
you today.
While watching
Great Expectations,
the sunset caught my eye
from the window

It was like
one other before:
a cloud blanket that
stretched back
in the sky
and was painted
bright gold which slid
into orange then pink
before snuffing out to gray.
Do you remember?

kp