Small Sparks, White Woods

For anyone still wondering the origin of macaroni waffles, more information (in a way) is in the following poem. I wrote it in college in two forms; this is a third re-write, but relies heavily on the first version. If some of the sexual imagery offends you, I trust you'll take it in the spirit it was meant. It was college. The title came rather fortuitously. I was shelving books at the library, and happened to have in my hand four books: one each by Bertrice Small, Nicholas Sparks, Stephen White and Stuart Woods. I thought it an excellent title, and found imagery to match it.

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Like most of my work at the time, this was written for Kate Horrigan. If you should stumble upon this, Katie, I hope it brings you happiness.

Small Sparks, White Woods

for my muse

She stepped in right behind me,

Into the woods, my little red

-haired soulmate, and there we stood

In the Forest of Touching Souls.

These were my woods, where words were a whispered

Secret shared in paperbark.

"Welcome to my birch society," I told her, and she smiled and nodded.

I led her to where the trees open

To nature's hidden pleasure...

We saw it — the Giving Tree, now but a Stump

And Silverstein doesn't come around anymore

(that hypocrite).

Slowly we danced in a walk sort of way

To rest on the beautifully beheaded tree.

As we sat on that Stump

The wind blew in hard around it

In nature's cunnilingus

And we heard the Stump moan, so we shifted our weight

And she sighed again for us in joyful silence.

I sat with red-haired Aikika there.

Aikika I called her, for it suited the young Hor-

rigan, and I tapped her shoulder

Like a maple for her syrup.

The wind blew in hard around her.

She took in the wonder I already knew

While we stroked our noses methodically

And frivolously upon the Tree.

Time blew on,

And we spoke of diverse and fantastic things;

Of Billy Joe's hair, of cookies and sex,

Of Chaplin, and macaroni waffles,

Always with a friendly smile that knew more

Than it told or understood.

Entwined, we sat in my woods

And wasted precious time

As closeness demands.

We had to hold on to these simpler times

Before the wind blew one of us

away.