SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

Portrait: The Boy with All the Keys in the World with All the Locks

This is how he came out: he floated into the air high above the sleeping forest, his green hat spinning a few feet above his head. In his hand was the open suitcase and out of it spilled a whole sky of stars.

In a flash, we're through the door, across the street and into the woods, running for no reason and laughing for no reason and totally out of breath and out of our minds when Brian catches me by my shirt, whips me around, and with one strong hand flat against my chest, he pushes me against a tree and kisses me so hard I go blind.

I love you," I say to him, but it only comes out, "Hey""So damn much," he says back, it only comes out, "Dude

I think about those two guys in the sky causing shipwrecks, causing things to burst into flame...