I saw her before she saw me;
She was engaged in a serious monologue
With her doe-eyed strawberry haired doll.
I inexplicably wished that she wouldn’t notice me;
She looked up from her desk to the colorless sky and the drops that slammed against the ceiling high windows in her office. She sighed; it was one of those days. Getting up after almost three hours of being glued to the computer screen, she flexed her back and neck, staring down at the empty…
“He stinks!” they mutter in disgust
A cozy pillow, a freshly made bed,
Fitted snugly in a corner of the streaked wooden floor,
Beckoned to rest her aching joints and throbbing head.
She folded herself inside the crisp covers,
“Speak up!” the teacher ordered the student,