By Misti Velvet Rainwater 
Date: 20 May 1999

Summary of Love

     love has happened to me, all of a sudden
            a church sign in Austin
               put it like this
        Love isn't Born, It Just Happens
              and I agree
          because there is
             no labor involved
        it is effortless
              and random

          I have fallen
            in love
              before
        but I don't remember it
     ever feeling
       this good

        for the first time
        in my life
     I feel like
      I am four years old
            again
   swimming in a blue plastic pool
       in my grandma's backyard
         under fluffy clouds
    that were all about
           joy