Summer Rose— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Come July and the long summer wind
she called me
needed to hear a voice that could hear her
talked of confusion and the summer doldrums
the lover inbetween days she felt
and she considered what it was … this waiting
and I heard her in the wires,
her memories walking thru me,
between the murmuring words,
talking to me after the winter time
from so far away
about distance and summer … about time
gallagher
27 jul 78 – long beach
Archive for the ‘People’ Category
1978-07-27 Summer Rose
Thursday, July 27th, 19781978-07-27
Thursday, July 27th, 1978It 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
1978-07-28 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 —