Joanna Hall is a 24 year old student at an up and coming art school in Manchester, New Hampshire. Art is her entire life and she makes sure to do it everyday. She loves getting her hands dirty in all medias and popping her eardrums with all genres of music. She lives in Lowell, MA and can't wait to move far far away from it.

Unique Memory (December 20, 2009. Issue 12.)

I remember when I hid under the metal springs of your bed bow and then
You kissed me like you thought you knew what you were doing

I remember when we ran over grassy knolls and tripped and fell
Receiving free gifts of grass stains that bled through to our kneecaps

I remember when you pushed me too hard on the grown cradle suspended from trees and
My palms were bleeding but not as bad as my ribs were and you did it on purpose

I remember when you rubbed forsythia blooms all over my face
Laughing and staring my humiliation was your one pleasure of the day

I remember when I shaved my head and wore tight pants for the first time
That showed off the rear end that no one knew I had and I didn’t like the attention

I remember when you first said you lved me and you were 7 and one half inches
Shorter that I was and then we had sex when my parents weren’t home

I remember when disappointment grew with occasion and grew greater than
The height of the pine I would scale out of the window of my room and sit in to smoke

I remember when you impregnated me and then you decided that it was too soon for us
And the doctor talked about football and laughed while vacuuming my insides

I remember when I first saw your eyes and then you bought me a yellow rose
Even though I hate roses especially red ones and I loved that rose

I remember when spare moments were my closest and dearest friends and now
They have betrayed my trust with uncertain thoughts I now despise

I remember when it was easy to communicate without hidden words and meanings
behind the words and meanings and what was said is what it was and nothing more