[some love lettering love for a rainy day bike]
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First kiss: behind Memorial Ice Rink:
We stand next to a pile of Zamboni ice,
mittens stuffed into pockets so that
when our hands touch each others’ by accident,
we will feel knuckles and nails
instead of factory knit wool.
[from the Love Lettering Project V]
... movie theatre love...and mailbox love...
My vertebrae slips between slats in the wood,
and I love you salt-bleached,
the beach stuck to the bottoms of our heels.
[from The Love Lettering Project V]
The Love Lettering Project V: December 31, 2009
[first kisses]
For the fifth Love Lettering Project, I asked people I love to send me the locations of their first kisses, along with the season of this kiss and I wrote poems about these moments, turned them into small pieces of one-of-a-kind art and slipped them into envelopes marked ‘love.’
On the very last day of 2009, I delivered these love letters to the places of these original kisses -- behind ice rinks, movie theatres, basements, behind churches, porches, driveways, school playgrounds…
It was a glorious day…
