It seems so much clearer now— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
now that I’ve seen her eyes…like mine
chasing the unobtainable lover’s dream
just as I’m chasing mine.
Its ironic how we each love someone else
who loves us less in turn
but yearns for the lover of another yet
who loves them also less in turn.
Jim would possess Kathy
and she would have me
And I would have Kathleen
and she, I’ve seen, longs for Ted.
These lover’s conjunctions – always and ever mismatched
we seek the things we can never have
from other who do the same
in an endless lover’s chain.
gallagher
27 july 78
Archive for 1978
1978-07-27
Thursday, July 27th, 19781978-07-28 Eastern Fire
Friday, July 28th, 1978
Eastern Fire
Helen ... unfolds like a flower ... stories pass her lips to my wonder ... I,
so unseeing behind my blind passions ... had no conception
of her spirit or her beauty or her depth before
She easily matched me because she is the same
logical and controlled and passionate and willful, all together
her secret spaces eluded my empathy and I thought it to be the culture
But in the soft light, after, she told me of her coming
of Toronto and Vancouver and the places she left behind
and of her lover and of the Canadian strawberry fields
One hundred pounds of fire and logic silhouetted in my doorway
black raven's hair; the light plays on her face thru my new understandings
and I smile to see what a good friend has been my lover all along.
gallagher
07-28-78 - about helen k.
long beach
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
1978-07-30
Sunday, July 30th, 1978
Sometimes I've got too many lovers
and not enough steady friends
and I wake up too many mornings
with a bad case of the lover bends
We go down into our passion
and we let the hours run away
but when we come back into our real lives
its still the same as yesterday
Form ... illusion ... our hands now
the curvatures, our skin at play
I wake up too many mornings
burned out for another day
What does it matter if we cast ourselves
against each other this way
we're, still, each of us, alone inside
and passion cannot chase that away
But I still take my lovers
in ego dances and play
as if by my holding them
I could chases all my fears away.
gallagher
30 july 78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —