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1984-01-05 Kathy M.

Dennis — Thu, 05 Jan 1984 08:00:00 +0000

Kathy M.

Shall I write you Kathy…
water for a thirsty man… just beyond my reach
the potential for passion with you
presses thru the air between us

These months have brought no relief
for my fantasy and longing
conversations snatched between games
smiles that touched me to the quick

I feel the current between us
that only hands against skin
can release.

gallagher
01 jan 84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-26 Kathy M. II

Dennis — Thu, 26 Jan 1984 08:00:00 +0000

Kathy M. II

Don’t smile unless you’ll touch me,
I can’t bear to look away.
The feelings your smiles give me,
they just make me want to play.

Play in a dance of feelings
of skin and hands so warm
of sharing secret places
of stomachs glowing warm.

gallagher
01-26-84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-30 Kathy M. III

Dennis — Mon, 30 Jan 1984 08:00:00 +0000

Kathy M. III

Come around again, heart in flames
going down again, before brown eyes.
empty response…you leave me no less

I risked, open and knowing,
and I cannot loose, doing this
I walked with elated anticipation and warmth
into her response
and the emptiness it gave me

Her compassion and friendship exchanged
for my passion
her reason and values arrayed
against my poetry

her brown eyes and warm skin
now so unreachable
In the warm and dappled sunlight
she told me how it was

Life,
life, press me as you will
my skin and my feelings and my heart
will stay open

I won’t turn away from you
or what you pass before me
These hands, this heart…
they will feel

I love, I hurt, I live
and I am real and I will be no less.

gallagher
30 jan 84
Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1984-01-30 Kathy M. IV

Dennis — Mon, 30 Jan 1984 08:02:00 +0000

Kathy M. IV

Engraved like stuben glass, her face
against the sunlight … telling me no
she wasn’t confused about how she felt
about me
about her marriage and her life, yes…
but about me, … no ….

I could have wished it otherwise
my emptiness told me
but I came here for the truth
either way … to feel it,
to embrace it.

Even now I want to run and say, ‘stay’,
that I can be JUST friends
share smiles and lunches and friendship
endure for the magic of your smiles
and the candor of your spirit.

But why say this …
the sight of her will be enough
to unmoor me in the days to come
when against all feeling I’ll ignore her
and against all reason, … fail.

gallagher
30 jun 84
Irvine

1984-04-10

Dennis — Tue, 10 Apr 1984 08:00:00 +0000

Whenever I go away from her
I ache from the sudden emptiness
where someone was.
She’s a slowly growing storm
an echo of childhood friends
and a future memory…growing warm.
She touched me once…
sudden compression of feeling there
like acres of skin
beneath a momentary tear

gallagher
10 apr 84
Irvine, CA

1984-06-27

Dennis — Wed, 27 Jun 1984 08:00:00 +0000


      Cloistered in your American T.V. family dream
        of homecoming queens and morals
           and sanitary friends without sin
              you are ... as solid as oak.

      Though the deeper you, as yet,
         is untouched by her mortal kin.

      Our eyes meet ... and exchange
        a seeker and his seen
           an ingenue and a chaser of his dreams.

      Every glimmer of the potential lover within you
        talks to me where my magic
           and the child wait against the night.

      My sweet all-American princess
        whose about to find the inner key
           just let me be standing in your pathway
             when you opt for crazy, wild and free.

                        gallagher
                        27 jun 84
                        Irvine