Happy Valentines Day!

Daisies in My Hair and Tulips in a Mason Jar

 by Shana Hart

I want to be crazy

                    sick

                    in love

I want my eyes to smile

I want to build a house that smells like him

      and tastes like us

I want wood floors that creak with his existence 

I want a clothesline to air our dirty laundry

Let the weeds grow tall hiding idiosyncrasies

I want a swing in our backyard that reaches

     the rooftops and doesn't leave splinters

When night falls I want to live by candlelight

       and the luxury of him

Listen to murmuring hearts and 

        let our bodies talk then finally

                                              soft 

                                              small 

                                              images of us

to pull at my sides

     begging me to teach

     helping me to learn

let there be something awesome

                                     immortal and mightier than us

and let us believe in it together