Strange Girl

You were the deep well

In earth-and-ocean class

And on the days you showed

I’d try to make you laugh

Cliques drift and

Converge in with a crash

And there we were, desk to desk

A young mountain and a strange girl

And then we met again at university

You said I came to you in a heavy dream.

Life in a glass house, you said was your secret theme.

Sometimes you creep me out

Have I ever told you you’re a strange girl?

We were silver moths

Around a naked bulb

On my parents’ porch that night

It was love

And it kept moving

I know you oh so well

Since we were 15

So well I feel my joints

When your weather’s shifting

I’ll be your confidante

Across the continents

You may one day be queen

But to me you’ll always be that strange girl