"I Will Miss You When You Grow Up"
by Brandon C. Spalletta
For Cooper
Things like how when you hear
my lack of subtlety approach
recognition lights your face,
eyes just weeks old widening
in search of a smile we share
which creeps like life through holes
in the concrete,
spreading on your face slowly at first
to then erupt like a sunrise
given only to me,
painting the entire sky.
Things like how when you hear
my lack of subtlety approach
recognition lights your face,
eyes just weeks old widening
in search of a smile we share
which creeps like life through holes
in the concrete,
spreading on your face slowly at first
to then erupt like a sunrise
given only to me,
painting the entire sky.
Brandon C. Spalletta is a poet from Herndon, Virginia. His poetry has been published in Maryland Literary Review, WWPH Writes, Bourgeon, and the anthology 2014 Storm Cycle: Best of Kind of a Hurricane Press. Newer poetry is forthcoming in Dodging The Rain. At twelve years old he stood atop Old Rag Mountain, and his heart never left.