For the benefit of Mr Kite...

It was a beautiful day this morning when I woke up. The air was warm already at 8am, which is pretty unusual around these parts in late October. But this afternoon, a wind came up that was of southern alberta proportions. It was beautiful, I walked out to my car after school and stood there in the parking lot letting the wind whip my hair around and freeze the ends of my fingers with my yak wool jacket, zipped up to my chin.

As I mentioned before, I've renewed my love for Edna St Vincent Millay and yesterday I came across a poem of hers that I had not read before, but that I now love:



Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry--
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable--
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hilltop underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry--
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry,
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry,
We hailed "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.