“Happy” or “enthused”
or “have something fun
that they are up to” or
even “up to.”
“In the past” or “past.”
Or “she was kind
to me,” or even
“she.” She was
happy, once. She was
kind to me in the past.
“They have something
fun that they are up to,”
people would say, seeing
us together, or “what
are they up to?”
or even, “up to?”
In the early spring
she wore a cotton scarf
every day, it seemed.
I unwrapped it
and kissed her neck
in the early spring.
I gave butterflies to her,
she later told me,
in parting. She kissed
me in parting. “In the past,”
she said. “Past.”
“They have something,”
people would say,
“something fun
that they
are up to.”
