knowing you
the season after
knowing you for the first time,
I tend my garden.
showing off the tomatoes,
I lend my neighbor a spade
late last night
we drank wine, and then
last night we shed salton tears,
ate over spilt blood,
remembered our age-old foes,
celebrated our free-ness
prophecy
some said the internet
would replace the printed word
everyone would forget
how to read a book
hypertext would replace
that boorish index, and
instead of face to face
we'd have cybersex
screen to screen
the geeks have won? but
I'll have my fun
face to face, or
face to thigh, and
lips to flesh or
ear to eye, and
hand to breast
mouth to toe, i'll
let you know and
feel how actual reality
works. you'll see
shai
i follow you with
my eyes
you stray from
my knees, distracted
by the brightly
colored books
in the shop
your mind wandering, hands
slip apart, you
look up some
moments later, up
someone else's coat
voyeur, i witness the
moment of
your disrecognition
tears quickly come
frantic, you call
I come to hugs
you are not ready
to leave me, my
eyes never left you
you strayed
from my knees
distracted