[to Tommy, Spring, 1972]
The walk home deliberately prolonged (warm
day); dress shirts frontally unbuttoned; beneath
our slacks' cuffs, unshod socks glided through long grass:
this was a good, first intimacy---shared with
hm during eighth grade.
Starward
[*/+/^]
Community, communion,
Community, communion, intimacy, companinability can all be built up and carried on through the inanest of things such as a malingering walk after the last bell of the day. Middle school summers are quite magical if we care to capture/recapture life and goings on from those days.
here is poetry that doesn't always conform
galateus, arkayye, arqios,arquious, crypticbard, excalibard, wordweaver
Please accept my sincere
Please accept my sincere apology for failing to reply gratefully to this fine comment in a timely manner. I thank you very much for visiting the poem, and for posting one of your always insightful comments.
Starward