@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Days After December 17th, 1976, Jaschu Shares A Memory

By day, his bare footprints traced the shoreline's contour.

At dusk, beneath his dress slacks' cuffs, he wore socks (softer, sheerer

than at home), but never shoes.  With my Tadzio, the sea is bluer;

and the stars, beginning just after twilight, seem so much nearer.

And when we paused our stroll to exchange a slow, wet kiss,

what homophobic prude would have dared to judge that amiss.

Beneath Christ's own stars. and fine beneath our shoeless, sheer-sheathed feet

and supple trouser cuffs, we stood and kissed, in a moment ours---whole and complete.


Januarian

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is a response to Thomas Mann's novela, Death In Venice.  The date in the title signifies the day the real Tadzio reposed.

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