I saw Alexandrite when I looked in your eyes I mean it was daylight I didn't catch a glimpse of you in incandescent and Alexandrite is supposed to be the evening emerald because it shows green by candlelight but the chartreuse in your top made the shade of your eyes pop when I took sight of you don't mention that it was only a photo on a profile on a pen pal site that I saw you and knew you and begged you to write.

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!