we touch in such frenzy
yet fight in the calm
languishing in waters that
appear tepid
though our passions are hotter
than napom
you devour me with the rampant
hungers of your mind
I drink your words in with but
that of my thirsting eyes
we both know that I shall hold
you for a time yet unknowingly you
warn me of your penchant for wondering
through means of side long underline
and of that I should be well advised
I hardly think that we will last for
very long
as thats hardly ever been for me
the common lay of the cards
but the length we do last
shall be utterly spectacular
to recall
though the eventual but necessary
parting so terribly hard
now, come
my for the moment friend
let me see your latest hand
as I've always loved best to behold
the hands of true touchers.............
(April 15, 1999)