Wendy

dear friend from Deep Cove
I left you behind
after the divorce

your dog bit my face
still have the scar

i remember playing in the ditches
the oak trees, glowing grasses and snakes,
reluctantly letting Anne-Marie join us at recess
at the request of the teacher


I love you Wendy Smith
silly glowing pixie with a storytelling face

i am wearing your dress in the school photo
your mother was cool

where are you now?

it has been 30 years
30 years
30 years

i just remember being so stupidly close to you
i would give anything to feel that innocent today

we were one little girl together

and you loved me

thank you for that