bond & galore

Candy-light dappled memory

 . . . sunshine day of early fall
Summer echoes as a secret carried in a blue backpack
Waiting in the hallway
Playful - easy
Colors danced as providence pulled along
No spy-games today

 . . determined goal set
Anticipation
Suddenly stretched & waiting in someone else's rumpled space

I have always possessed a fondness for texture, corvids, corvairs, snow, rain 

     fragile things, the smell of summer grass and your birthmark
A map to home, my compass . . . found
Stretched & waiting with studied diligence & mirth
To be noticed & touched in the sieved air of an afternoon
Something smells of dust motes & oranges
Reverence beckons 
Walls fade . .  sound & light fractured ... dappled still against the awakening
An ease of intimacy is discovered

the strange tempered blend 

of
Pressing weight & surrender
Pleasure & pain 

lying alongside your length was a lock into the flecked space of something exquisite 

Unfinished
Fireworks--forgiveness selected

Set aside for a distant hanging moment
No struggle with definition & words

(as if we just knew)
This
Was
Unlocking the map that points North
Secrets shadowed & cut with a sharpness divine
Tapped in and set afire 
I stole a shower to study the abstract release of red ribbons watercoloring my thigh
And felt hollowed - as if a part of me had been pulled out
Filled now with the dappled candy sunlight 

    of that vermillion moment