Before you and I understood the nuances and niceties
that were, then, associated, with Homosexuality's
sometimes rather obscure mysteries:
we understood that barefoot and shirtless were metonomies
for the coupling and pleasures that are intimacy's.
Regardless of old prudes' prejudice and haters' thuggeries,
nothing could wrest this inclination from our souls.
Friends since kindegarten . . . now we felt Desire's most exquisite pulls.
Starward-Led