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2003-10-15 || 10:31 a.m. || dinner conversation || the historic event of your parents meeting your boyfriend's parents for the first time. invisible ribbons unfurling and weaving over handshakes and dinner tables and polite conversation. erecting scaffolding around last names, disassembling the words and constructing them again in different combinations, standing alone, held together with reinforcements and steel beams and two by fours. there was a glass dining room table and you remember watching the spaces between words fall onto empty plates like feathers and then looking down through glass at his hand held in your lap, tightly. guestbook || notes || archives || profile || photos || d-land |