10.09.04 - 5:05 p.m.

he has an uncanny way of drawing the way i feel
during any given week: the girl waiting
patiently for a bus in a torrential downpour,
the girl with birds around her head as if
something had just knocked her into a state of semi-
consciousness, and the girl sitting in a grass field looking
admiringly up at the boy flying a
remote control airplane, a vaguely proud smile on his face.