this is what happened when I saw you again
your skeleton is showing like an x-ray
there’s a glow in your eyes from the flash
(I’ve seen them when they’re glowing
while you lay on top of me, palms in the grass
bending down to kiss me as hard as you could
with a summer moon like a halo around your head
or after that, upstairs on my bed, your white shirt
above me like clouds in a blue sky, a scarf
at your neck, backed by smooth white skin)
it took me by surprise, seeing you again
I’d been careful to not let that happen
I still feel the way I felt, even after
the river of words and touches became
a vast silent sea that I couldn’t cross
I wasn’t sure if those feelings were still there
but there you were and suddenly
my hands were shaking, my heart
pounding like a marathoner’s
but there was nowhere to run to
so I wrote this poem
25 October 2013
Oak Street
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