Of a Passerby Outside Cianfrani (Poem)

I saw her hair first.

Long, silver, hanging in waves put into motion by God.

I couldn’t have guessed what her face should look like, but when I saw it looking back over her shoulder, that smile and pointed nose seemed more natural than a sunrise in the morning. The crinkles next to her eyes had an effect opposite opposite of Time’s intention when that patient devil began slowly creating them.

Instead of suggesting her years, they attributed to giving her profile a look of childish mischief- a spark that is stomped out by adult fears (being responsible we call it) by the time most of us can no longer be called children.

Those wrinkles, those crinkles shadowed and hid her years, with the help of the light in her eye reflected, by the shining silver waves that adorned her face and hung down her back like the cape of a queen.

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I'm Definitely in Texas

I'm currently in Georgetown. I just had a barista ask for my name, then ask me to repeat it, then create a completely new spelling. "MADILLAN." After YEARS of seeing the most creative efforts of the coffee industry, this 20-something-year-old still managed to impress me. But hey, i get it. My name is quite a handful. MADELEINE MCILHERAN doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a lullaby. Unfortunately, after having recorded this completely original name in sharpie on a plastic cup, he then thought to ask me how it was spelled. Luckily I have this part of the usual exchange down. "That's close enough." (I will miss seeing the correct spelling of my name regularly.)

odd·i·ty /ˈäditē/

Have you ever noticed How most everyone now Calls that which is b eyond their comprehension Odd- Yet we wonder why our lives seem to be surrounded by peculiarity. "It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems ." "No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle." - Watchmen So much is beyond our comprehension, Yet we seem satisfied with the 1% we have- When we don't even know if that one percent is truly out of a hundred. Or one thousand. Or one million.

Expeditious

"Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." ~ 1 Peter 1:13

Madeleine McIlheran

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