photo: e.bouman, Johnny

a movie of you running toward me

if I could I would turn my bicycle
into a movie projector

I would reel the film around the front tire
and back onto the rear tire

and pedal so fast that I would keep
the light mounted on the frame burning

I would do all I could to stay steady
over the sidewalk cracks and curbs

to keep the movie of you running toward me
splashed on buildings and sky

if I could turn my bicycle
into a movie projector

if I could pedal this moment into forever
and pedal and pedal it into forever again

~ Denver Butson