Poetry
The problem is not the surprised tone
Or the bemused flicker that comes
With every initiated conversation,
The unexpressed but still-present curiosity
Wrapped up in a series of why and why and why;
No, it’s not that at all. The tone, a sonic window
Bestowing a fleeting glimpse into the curtained
Bedroom of your soul, surpasses the best
Language can do without drawing attention to itself.
I treasure those heard glimpses, of a piece with
The unconscious, and so unguarded, looks that whispers
Pleasure that could never be drowned out by voice,
An autonomic sigh giving life to safe intercourse and,
I hesitate to add, affection. Of course those are worth
As much as any other un-corruptible thing,
An echo from the cool of the Garden.
The problem, the one I resign to spelling out
And so consuming, like a firefighter
With a misplaced sense of timing,
Is the fear that this gift,
So unwittingly given me on so many wonderful occasions,
That, sitting at my table-for-one
And cradling a silent telephone,
I will never be privileged to give it.
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