After I discovered, when he was almost naked,
how seductively beautiful he was with just his socks
unremoved (anticipating love), I felt like an astronomer
sighting a new star, or designers of calendars and clocks;
or master builders, marking ashlars that were once unshaped rocks.
Starward-Led
Author's Notes/Comments:
Tommy was only nine days older than me. We shared an awkward, but happy, intimacy, and also had fierces crushes on David Cassidy (especially when depicted in "teen" magazines barefoot).
Tommy's flaunting of his socks, always shoeless, to communicate his desires was so very skillfully seductive. Only BlueShift was more seductive that way.