SamadhiMuse

                    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 —

                 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 —