I Am

I am almond flesh

On a skyscraper frame

I am coffee stain eyes, button nose, and ivy curls

 

I am Peter Pan

I am a skipping stone

I am the imagination of my youth;

The inquisitiveness of thought

 

I am lost in time

I am a stationary time traveler

I am a freshly stamped letter, a pocket watch, an antiquated photo

 

I am music unheard by the masses

I am a faulty radio connection

I am a musical, comedy, drama, and a Sundance

 

I am family dinners

I am cozy laughter

I am wrapping paper and bows, nutmeg and cloves, a chipped tea cup

 

I am Sonny

I am friendship bracelets

I am a fired S’more, a patchwork quilt, a broken necklace

A community apple

 

I am a stolen glance

I am a magnifying glass

I am a mirror

 

I am a Fall hoodie

Smelling of bonfire and football

I am a crisp leaf

I am a brisk breeze

 

I am an empty wallet

I am a plane ticket

I a a suitcases;

A caged bird

 

I am a dangling pear,

The impassioned sun kissing the earth

I am the ocean watched by the moon

I am barefoot grass and carnival clouds

 

I am a novel unfinished

I am words and colored pencils

I am a semi colon, a run-on sentence, an ellipsis for things not yet written… 

 

I’m Not

A size

A shape

A statistic

These things I’m not

 

A perfect manicure

Adventure-less skin

Braces

A canned tan

These things I’m not

 

A Twitter

An Instagram

A Tumblr

A fandom

These things I’m not

 

A mouse

I’m not

Nor a tiger

Nor shark

 

A disaster of mass destruction

A bitter blizzard

A humid summer’s rain

These things I’m not

 

A lampshade

A red cup

A ping-pong ball

These things I’m not

 

An athlete

An actress

A cliché

A brain

These things I am not

 

 

I am a culmination of all these things I’m not