SamadhiMuse

                        Kathi K.
      Confusion’s growing, just where my senses said …
      Her feelings, her children, her husband, her law school,
      her passion, her family, herself, and me.
      The lack of conscious choice leads us
      and our honesty into ever narrower passages
      I truly care for her and, if she were free, I would love her;
      her mind, her passion, her company are excellent …
      but so much reality … so many lives … many she loves
      and all of whom need her love … stand in the way.
      And she … she just wants to let it happen ‘naturally…’
      She’s honest and naive in such proportions I cannot grasp her.
      I feel it all short lived … too finely balanced …
         if she continues in a hurry.
      Her problems are much more complex than mine ever were
         and her approach less cautious
      My eyes get bigger as we continue … and I hold myself
      for once she told me I judged her too soon … far too soon.
      Events are running … time’s running … she’s moving
      school’s starting … Nichol’s ending …
      and now she wants to go to Colorado with me
      and she tells Chuck after Chuck’s displayed jealousy towards me
      and she wants to mix Amy and Danny when Danny knows
      she’s a girlfriend of mine … Lord!…
      And she talks good philosophy
      and has passion as good as I’ve seen
      and she’s easy to be with and likes me
      Lord … look out world … just look out world.
                           gallagher
                           Long Beach – about Kathi K.
                           05-30-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                     Taking Ron’s truck home
         Capture these days
            The desert sun and the indian miles
         Durango, Flagstaff … the San Luis Valley
         All the hours Kathi and I talked and made love
         The evenings there in other cities
         The day we bussed across southern Colorado
            and walked thru Colorado Springs
         and, finally, the flight from Denver
            and the rocky mountain’s massive lines
         Ron and Sally’s trailer, Kathi and I, and they
            the easy friendship and how, smoking grass,
               I saw Kathi’s spirit shine so clearly
         Hugh Prather’s book, we read …
         across the Arizona desert
            in the Durango motel
               and in the Trailways bus
                  oblivious to those around us
         Dinners and smiles in Flagstaff
            making love driving … and atop Wolf Creek pass
         Sunshine hours and days pressed, living,
            between the beginning and end of our journey
         Here on the ground again, with Colorado just four hours old
            it all seems forever distant
         But here the impress of Kathi’s spirit remains
            with its honesty and passion and intelligence
               and, most of all, with its free standing love.
                        gallagher
                        Long Beach – about Kathi K. & I going to
                                     Colorado
                        06-13-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —