I watched you, BlueShift, as you walked from
your sister's house at the top of our street's
slope, southward toward my parents' house, to
begin our customary summer Saturday night. I
had offered to pick you up in the car; but---
having smashed through the inhibitions that once
separated us from our natures and each other,
you said you wanted to walk, and you wanted me to
watch you walk. Your shirt was frontally
unbuttoned; the tattered cuffs of your baggy
jeans did not quite conceal your midnight
blue socks (you carried your shoes with one hand).
Your mane of curls was perfectly coiffed; the
StarGaze was already glowing in your eyes, and your
smile---both shy and seductive (a paradox I never
tired of considering). And I thought---in all of the
vast cosmos, your beauty was right here to bless me; and---
despite the prejudices of old prudes and haters who
tell me otherwise---your love was right here to
sustain and strengthen me, especially for the
consumaton of desire into the intimacy we both wanted.
Starward