i'll sell my arms for you

Thursday September 10, 2009

When I missed the South the most, I’d take
to dating one of its sons: gentlemen
callers who held the door
with tapered fingers or rough
field hands. What I was looking
for was never to be found
in them, just something like it,
the way a lake can bring to mind
but never be the sea.

-stacey lynn brown