I like the frivolity of this one. The long blank spaces suggest a youthful, breathless excitement over love. This poem was included in an issue of the Bennington Review that was devoted to the theme "Kissing in the Future." I think the writer, Allyson Young, did a good job putting a twist on the theme.
Kissing My Future by Allyson Young
My first crush was on light but he was never long
I mooned over him dying—
I had never been anywhere with a boy before out at nighttime!
I wrote a list of the ones I wouldn’t mind going out with:
James Dean and
Orlando Bloom.
We went to the country in one of those trucks with slatted wooden sides, filled with
matted hay
it was a blast in Vermont but it made my head go floaty
all this
kissing my future!