c 2006, 22 pages.
"a short black hoop skirt with all the ruffles underneath..."
6x6, staple-bound.
cover art by kate schapira.

My entire face and M's. We look so young, this being only our second date. I remember picking her up from her house beforehand, handing her my orchid, and being stunned by the dress she was wearing, so red and so heavy, how it held her body tightly. I was envious of that red dress. I remember afterwards drinking some tea together and discussing the following things: our own dreams and goals; our futures, possibly together; M's desire for security and family; my desire for wealth and fame, politics, poetry; and Lincoln's bloody death just a few feet away from us only an hour or two earlier.






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