Two side-by-side photos of pages in a spiral-bound journal with light turquoise ribbon along the side with pages dotted in a grid fashion. A poem is written in fancy lettering across the two pages, mostly in purple fineliner, with some words capitalized in black. The title, "Recuerdo", is in thin block letters, next to a doodle of the Staten Island ferry in New York. The text reads:
We were very TIRED we were very MERRY we had gone back and forth all night on the FERRY it was BARE and BRIGHT and smelled like a STABLE BUT we looked into a FIRE we LEANED across a table we lay on a HILLTOP underneath the MOON and the WHISTLES kept blowing and the DAWN came soon we were very tired we were very merry we had gone back and forth all night on the ferry and you ate an APPLE and I ate a PEAR from a dozen of each we had bought SOMEWHERE and the sky went WAN and the wind came COLD and the sun rose dripping a bucketfull of GOLD we were VERY tired we were VERY MERRY we had gone BACK and FORTH ALL NIGHT on the ferry we hailed GOOD MORROW mother to a SHAWL-COVERED HEAD and we bought a MORNING PAPER which NEITHER of us read she WEPT "God bless you for the apples and pears" and we gave her ALL our money but our SUBWAY FARES.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (on a memory in New York, written in 1919).
One of my new favourite poems, as I drew out in my journal from memory 💕
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