Being adolescents, they could not explain
why the removal of their shoes and shirts (jeans
or dress slacks kept on, feet bare or socksheathed) made
their private encounters more sensual, their
Love better expressed.
Coerulescent
Author's Notes/Comments:
The title is meant to be whimsical, the parenthetical words are meant as a parody of homophobia.
The mystery the BoyFriends observe (the beauty of shoelessness and shirtlessness) is exactly what I encountered during my adolescence when you, Tommy, mentored me into male to male intimacy, during the summers of 1971, 72, and 73.