I kissed a boy today. He had dark hair, a shock of dark hair like bottomless water.  I kissed him and he whispered "Forever."  I

wanted
to laugh

like a mad woman.  He

Later, as the leaves fell from the sun in the blue-blue sky, as the red balloon tip-toed across the face of distant grace a little girl came to me and she said:

Jesus loves you, that's why he sent you an angel.  We all have one.

I couldn't tell her I suppose I killed mine.