Nostalgic days these are. Dining at an Italian pizzeria in Flanders, Belgium, I hear the debut album Little Earthquakes of Tori Amos, and am taken back to 1993. A high school friend and I moved into an apartment for the summer, the first place with my own bills and a lease. Her beautiful creative soul dances in my memory.
Tori Sings
for J.T.
China
sometimes
you want me
to touch you
~Tori Amos
friend of
porcelain and fire
with nimble heart and mind
i remember you
dancing to
your own tune
inspired by youth
hopes undashed by
years of
trial and error
our lives circled
one to another
unplanned but
fateful returns
cherished and numbered
be well
wherever you may be
Post updated: 28 January 2009.
Tori Sings by Melissa Dey Hasbrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
