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6B Wednesday, March 27, 2013 // The Statement

Wednesday, e 3B

5.
By Hannah Weiner

if I am yours and you are mine
and this is us,
this is us.
Then these are my hands which are yours
in mine in ours,
then you are my heart (which is yours)
and you are my stars (all of them,
which are yours, even the shooting ones)
and you are my song
that from you I learned how to sing.

ON BY MEGAN MULHOLLANC

Preparation for
Painting Shutters:
A Checklist
By Luc LaFreniere

1. When you pry the shutters from
the office wall
be sure to let the dayspring's fore-
most teeth
nip loose the clutched fibers of your
thawing skin.
2. When you sweep the chick-down
yellow shutters
it's fairly important that you brush
musically,
rendering ear-bud tremor to gam-
bol-dance tempo.
3. While scooping up the shutters
for relocation
you must ornament your half-
shucked body in sun,
making sure to gratefully-receive all
orisons of heat.

4. When the shutters are scrubbed
with the jolly suds
you cannot forget to bow to the
bubble-built castles
stoutheartedly sliding down the
unzipped wood grain.
5. When you-on high pressure-
hose down the shutters
it is greatly advised that you cel-
ebrate the cool clack and
splash on the slats as if they were
your own toasty vertebrae.
6. When you have the faded shut-
ters all ready for painting,
leaned along in the garage like spot-
less flaxen piglets
suckling at the sow,
have five strawberries.

The F Train Downtown
By Olivia Lloyd

she wasn't the most beautiful woman,
(those fairy eyelashes...)
and his face wasn't much to write home about,
(that kindness in his glance...)
Butsitting across fromthem onthe subway car,
(these headphones playing nothing...)
I saw the most open, tender love.
(this desire mixed with pity...)
free
unpretentious and easy,
The rest of us should ever be so lucky.
He with closed eyes
and she-seeing the world over fringe of
singular arresting beauty--

kisses his shoulder.
A gentle nudge says,
I am not yours, you are not mine--
We are.
Even on this crowded, smelling subway car,
My darling so dear,
We are.