Jeanine Walker is a poet who for three years also published a daily comic strip called “Getting to Know the Tulip.” She received an MA in creative writing from Hollins University in Virginia and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Walker is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets/Brazos Bookstore prize and works as the Writers in the Schools program manager at Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Falling in Love

by Jeanine Walker

On Monday I fell in love with him

even though his hands could never stay still.
He turned my fingers
between his thumb and pointer
like they were a roll of quarters
and he was figuring out when he’d do his laundry.
People on couch
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