Challenge
Describe your first love.
As they say, "All's fair in love and war," so there are no rules! Just write something about your first love.
navy blue, with lines and an odd little pocket on the sleeve
even repressed Catholic kids with
starkly drawn, 24 font bold lines
still need to color within them
often
feverishly
and in as many places
as possible
we had never felt vital
it was little and silly and young
it also made me
it made possibilities
she fell asleep on my
shoulder in the beanbag
chair we shared to watch
a movie that first
afternoon and when she
woke lines pressed in
her cheek from my shirt
which hangs in my closet
two decades on because
you don’t shove history
into a donation bin
because you grew