“Baby, This is Just to Say” by Leigh Lucas (Poetry ’17)
Poetry alum Leigh Lucas was recently featured in Two Hawks Quarterly. Read an excerpt of “Baby, This is Just to Say” below:
Baby, This is Just to Say
I don’t speak French very well so today I said to my cab driver, Virginie,
I said, Me, now, I am always proud, because if there is something, I can do it! Me. I can.
Do you understand?
To which she responded, Oui, which was mostly just nice of her
because I didn’t really either but I couldn’t stop speaking, I felt just like
a moon bounce on the up-jump, I said,
I can do things, just at me, all alone! I practically shouted it.
C’est merveilleux, she responded, and then I loved her as much as I love anyone in the world.
It was hard for me to say goodbye,
so I gave her my number in case she ever wanted to call,
no pressure, I said, but she didn’t understand because I said it in English.
Read the full poem here: Baby, This is Just to Say by Leigh Lucas – Two Hawks Quarterly
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