Megan Eaves

2016: the good things

an ordered poem-list of in-jokes and obscurities

• the shins, finally, live
• maijishan
• wifey and the globe
• snottingham
• sunlight bathed the golden glow
• eleanor of aquitaine
• bled
• Y667
• and the stars
• romeo
• that bottle of wine in the courtyard of the garrick inn in stratford-upon-avon
• hotdogstreetsslashgiggles
• kweens
• in particular kweens xmas market lunch
• jones
• something sent to sleep at the stage
• taitung celestia
• kattybabylove
• sobbing at the high countries
• in the car
• at the target parking lot.
• aikea-guinea
• is
• the friendship of peter lee
• xiahe, walking the inner kora
• messages
• BiD, GKM, LoB
• the day of fourteen k and red dirt girl
• the dome of st pauls
• i myself am exhausted and my blood pressure has dropped
• in
• do you know that fucker
• the wild atlantic way times two
• kat-meganchat
• which became spreadsheet, briefly
• then history
• not having a stereo in the car that once
• the beer sludge river
• and then you said, “let’s obliterate them.”
• that swim at praia da rainha
• love
• teenage fanclub
• BLANCHE!
• brexit cats
• the MVE in greenwich
• goodbye darlin’
• sunset over the drava
• sunrise over whitby abbey
• hashtagpickletickle
• again
• slam ‘er down boys
• big beery advent calendar
• dramatised performance of ‘the waste land’
• and seeing ts’s pavilion in margate
• the search for, and not finding of (yet), an old street tower block
• you got rid of the dickhead
• and got your passport
• you got rid of the dickhead
• and discovered dogs
• you weren’t the snoggy girl
• and all our shared ubers
• stargazing in the back garden
• an email from jc brouchard, who might be real
• coffee
• gibbous
• stop saying gibbous
• the train through flanders
• nashville sound and bakersfield sound
• trieste.
• the viking splash tour
• three days with tag
• charlotte and blueberry
• mexican bandits, which reached me in new places
• bill clinton and the balloons
• TOWELLLSSSSSSS
• ENDIVE!
• the snow that fell on the danxia landform when i was unprepared
• mary chapin carpenter
• and all roads lead to 1992
• your laugh and your smile lines
• finally, the monks who saved me at tiantishan
• because they prove that the world is inherently good
• and there is still magic to be found
• and felt.