On one of that July's sultriest Saturdays (after the tenth),
you, BlueShift, stood---shoeless and shirtless---on the East
bank of Verging Creek, where the channel is narrowest and
shallowest. On to the large flat rock, visible beneath the
water's flow---a yellow rock in which fossils were embedded;
not, apparently, of interest to rock hounds or fossil collectors---
you stepped lightly, even eagerly, to submerge your midnight blue
crew socks and the tattered cuffs of your distressed, bell-bottom
jeans. I engorged immediately: I think you did, too, as the
bulges were readily apparent. Your beauty, there, became the
generator of the most erotic fantasies---even when the college
took me and parted us for eleven weeks. Yes, your appearance was
always beautifully erotic; but more so was your seductive gesture:
you took off your shoes and shirt, and stepped on to that rock (in
Verging Creek; they say it is still there) . . . because I asked
you to do so.
Starward-Led