A Runner’s Life is About… Making adjustments…adjusting your schedule, adjusting your sneakers, pulling up the tongue, tying and re-tying your laces, twice, three times, picking your shorts out of your crack, making sure your bra straps aren’t twisted, tying your hair back, positioning the headband, “organizing” yourself in general, doing a few completely irrelevant neck […]
Archives for July 2015
Ten, Again by Kim Valzania
When she rides her bike she feels ten, again Wind in her hair, racing down the street, switching the gears On her bike she has no bills, or worries, or fears She does not feel her ascending years And happiness is the sound of pedals whipping ’round, and wheels to the ground, and is found and found (and found again) in moments […]
Betty the Best by Kim Valzania
Betty the Best What I remember about you is this The way you smoked those long brown Mores forever the way your velour outfits always matched top to bottom your quick to giggle your clever wit your phony German accent your perfect Catholic School handwriting the way you danced your little jig your one ball […]