Moorestown

Her window looked on North Church Street
 An attic space overgrown
 A photo book of smiling friends
 Road maps, New York, Los Angeles
 Her walls are Mediterranean blue
 Her baby sister picked the hue
 Saltwater taffy, Jersey shore
 Blue like the fingernails she wore
 Her house is not far from the school
 Her mom taught on the Hudson
 Her dad's guitar sings open-tuned
 Reverberates up through the floor
 Our love grew more one summer there
 Where we'd spend our days just driving around
 Old parking lots and neighborhoods
 Are framed and charmed in Moorestown
 I followed her across the earth
 Through parks in London, coasts of Perth
 Newport, Kentucky, New Orleans
 We shared a million lives, it seems
 I slept with her so many nights
 We moved together heavenly
 So close the North Pacific slept
 You too were once beside me
 She moved away to Williamsburg
 Her eyes, sad eyes were waving
 My thoughts will pause, my throat will swell
 When her name is spoken
 And looking past the cold long sea
 I cannot bear to wonder now
 If the cascading soft lights
 Are glowing for us in Moorestown