SamadhiMuse

         I called Helen K. today
            and said I wanted to say goodbye
         that just friends after what we had been
            was not something I could do
         It wasn’t bitter or argumentative;
            as ever she meets me softly but head on.
         we talked about us…what we had been
            and why it had been so good…
         That we could descent into utter passion
            and yet operate with flawless logic
         that we never fell into the emotion traps
            that wait for lovers who aren’t friends
         The afternoon in Palos Verdes when we last made love
            in a field of waving grass and warm sunlight
         of letters and poems written and destroyed
            of consciousness and age, of lifetime friends…and now
                                    gallagher
                                    10 Nov 83

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