Kathy M. IV— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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
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1984-01-30 Kathy M. IV
Monday, January 30th, 19841984-04-10
Tuesday, April 10th, 1984Whenever I go away from her— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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
Wednesday, June 27th, 1984
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
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —