The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy by Marie Jaskulka

Author:Marie Jaskulka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

In a Tree House

The plywood boards

nailed together by previous

generations

show their years

of rain and pain

and kids

who should’ve known better.

Yet, I climb

the ladder

behind him.

He’s brought blankets

that smell like him,

TastyKakes,

and a six-pack of ice-cold

generic soda.

He even lit a candle

so I can see

the clean-wood rectangles

on the walls

where the centerfolds

once hung.

We kiss,

hug, play

a game of hide-

and-seek,

so to speak,

and then

I take control:

I blow out

the candle

and roll my back

onto the sleeping bag

he’s brought.

“It’s time,” I tell him, pulling him

(so strong yet so easily moved)

on top of me.

“Are you sure?”

“I want to.”

Then so slowly,

so carefully,

he—

. . .

It isn’t the heavy breathing

scream-fest

they make it out to be,

and the pain

wasn’t half as bad as

watching my father leave.

For me,

anyway,

it was warm and very quietly

intense,

like being between the pages of

a book

I’ve been dying to read—

one that makes me close

my eyes sometimes, to stop

and just to wonder

whether it

lives up

to the hype.

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