I tend to avoid these because I have so many other things I want to say, but I thought this one from Peonies and Polaroids was too lovely to pass up.

One picture, one poem, one song, one quote, one item of clothing, one place and one Disney princess.

One Picture

by d’art photographie

One Poem

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins

One Song

One Quote

My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.
.-Henry V, Shakespeare, Act 5, scene ii

One Item of Clothing

JCrew (Where else?)

One Place

I miss the frozen yogurt and my best friends, all found in Utah (and Boise! :) ).

One Disney Princess

I loved her then because she had brown hair and loved to read. I love her now because she is kind and has the kind of library I dream of having myself one day.

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