Honeymoons

In college I was an unpaid intern
which had benefits
like getting a manicure
so they could use my hand
as a model,
and writing about honeymoons
for the bridal magazine.

I was a dreamer,
always going on honeymoons—
Queenstown, Bora Bora—
with the men I
never let myself be with,

Sabrina the Teenage Witch
leaving her affianced at the altar
to hop on Harvey’s bike,
tulle and lace billowing
into the series finale,
black screen.
Easier to write about it
than to leap.

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Michael Colbert is a gay writer based in Portland, Maine. His writing appears in Vanity Fair, One Story, Esquire, and The Cincinnati Review. He’s the founding editor of The Rejoinder and is at work on a novel.