1
Clad in polo shirts, baggy trousers (cargos
and distressed jeans); both are shoeless (barefoot and
socksheathed): the depth, duration and wetness of
their kisses suggest that, quite soon, they will "get
"naked" together.
2
The defunct Party ("Partiya Lenina"),
although now impotent, considers their
small apartment's addresses as nearer to the
Kremlin; but they say it is nearer to Saint
Basil's Cathedral.
3
Flaccid and refracting after pleasure's peak,
still naked, they watch the evening's stars through
high windows as streaks of released sweetseed, once
glistening, now evaporates slowly from
their rumpled bedsheet.
Starward-Led