he has lilac eyes, i said
as friends kept wondering
what the man i was in love with looked like.
one can't have lilac eyes, they said.
i know, i said. i've heard it more than once.
but still, he does. that's why he is so alienlike.
and I was sad about my eyes
that were nothing to write home about.
all brown without a single speck of a different color.
they made me sad, my eyes.
what does it matter?
we weren't talking of your eyes,
but his, said friends.
he can't have lilac eyes.
i smiled and smiled and thought of him.
he had those lilac eyes because he was a dream.
