A Poem for You: Naïve by Tim Seibles
admin2024-03-19T09:44:04-04:00Naïve Tim Seibles I love you but I don’t know you —Mennonite Woman When I was seven, I walked home with Dereck DeLarge, my arm slung over his skinny shoulders, after-school sun buffing our lunch boxes. So easy, that gesture, so light— the kind of love that lands like a leaf. It was 1963. We were two black boys whose snaggle-toothed grins held a thousand giggles. Remember? Remember wanting to play every minute, as if that was why we were born? Those hands that bring us shouting into this life must open like [...]