"Jinsong" by Mary Anne Mohanraj (moh2@midway.uchicago.edu). There's incredible variety in this author's writings. This story started slowly. At first I was concerned that I might have accidentally downloaded somebody's garbled e-mail instead of the story I had expected. Then I realized that the story was written in the form of e-mail messages between a woman with the "handle" Jinsong (who has just broken up with her boyfriend) and a Pennsylvanian named Matthew Danzener (a shy guy who at first seems incapable of romance). Matthew is extremely awkward in his communications, except when he speaks in poetry. After a few mundane messages, Matthew hits Jinsong with a 627-word poem that describes his anticipated first date with Jinsong. What he wants to do is actually pretty tame; but it sure sounds great the way he puts it. You'll have to read the story yourself. It's impossible to convey its mood without the e-mail and the poetry.