Valentine drew near, when any man or woman without the warmth of another body in their bed was a thing to pity. I'd gone five years without that joy, ...ince my husband's death, and I was damned by the sad cow eyes my fellows sent my way. To lie with a widow was taboo, moreso when she was young and childless, as I am. My mother was one of then many who loved to recite the trite, "You can do anything you put your mind to," and I was impressionable as a child. With her voice in my ear, colored. Now, come here and get down.’ Deeda stretched her arms up for Stinkerface to get into so she could get down from the shelf she was perched on. Stinkerface just smiled at her Deeda. ‘I like it up here, Deeda, it makes me bigger than you,’ giggled Stinkerface. ‘But Rachel, you could fall. Please come here to Deeda before you give me a heart attack. Besides, you scared me half to death when I couldn’t find you. Please come down now, sweetheart.’ ‘No, I like it up here. Wait, this box is in my. Without a real playground, we played by letting each other put hands down our pants. I think we played at fucking a few times. Hazel went on though. Two brothers down the street told me about feeling her up. She told them I had done it too. I denied this because it was my secret and I didn't want to share. Do you think that Hazel and I had something special? I think so. I wonder how I learned about being dirty. I'd had a man's cock in my mouth around the same time as the Hazel soft fucks. I. "Poetry is everywhere, Gaku, in the hills and streams around us, in this roadway, even in the sunset. If something makes you feel, really feel intensely... use words to make someone else feel the same. That is all poetry is to me." Poetry around here? Where?" Gaku turned wildly about in his saddle and I had to adjust my Short bow out of my way to follow him. "If there is a poem here, I don't see it." Recite something for him, Gareth," Blaster said, looking over his shoulder. "Make him a poem.