THE PREHISTORY OF JESSE GREEN

for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure.

Revelation 19:7-8

She was crazy she was not she was beautiful and rich she knew Miami meant my friend or my soul that’s why we went there and lived in a hotel like tourists though it wasn’t the destination just a place to rest and relate she said soul mates find out what’s after friendship and her eyes lit up when she told me and I wanted nothing else but to go with her wherever even Panama she was so serious I got serious too after all it was an easy decision for me that spring sitting on a bench on Cornwall in Vancouver looking at water freighters high-rises trees mountains snow sky and her green eyes mostly her eyes and when the jay landed in the maple tree over the fence and chattered everything slowed down and it was the sign she said that we should stop talking and go