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May 10, 2009


1996: Ponte Vecchio

Sun shining

Air heavy with summer

Curls sticking to your neck

Gold lining the bridge

Glinting

You take it in

You absorb the headiness

You lose yourself in the crowd

In the locals

You look

Are looked at

Who are you?

You can be anyone

Reinvent yourself

Play the role you want

The role you imagine

Become one here

Find yourself

The breeze through the alley

On the corner

You cross

You look

Are looked at

You will never feel

More alive

—EKS, 1996

**While going through a box of old papers I found this poem I wrote the summer I was in France and Italy on an exchange program. I felt incredibly alive the summers I was abroad.**

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  1. Jo says

    May 11, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    This is fabulous! What an incredible experience France and Italy must have been.

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  2. M.J. says

    May 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Nice poem! I never felt more alive than when I was tromping around Central and South America, before I got my “real job.” I feel ya!

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  3. Haley says

    May 12, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Isn’t it great when you come upon something that you wrote at a different time in your life…it’s like reliving that time all over again. Thanks for sharing this with us!

    Reply

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