Archive for the ‘People’ Category

1978-09-10 KA again

Sunday, September 10th, 1978

KH again *

You can feel through her like glass
her empathy is so natural
you can feel her womanliness
and little girl
whenever she looks at you

She’s a siren and I’m so easily hypnotized
she virtually pulls men to her
for the feel of her is … genuine, is woman,
is passion, is sensuous

Something to covet, to possess
if only for hours

To touch her deep sultry womanliness
through her transparent empathy
through those brown eyes windows
of her made to be loved soul
is a joy to make simple sex pale.

gallagher

09-10-78 – about kathleen a.

long beach


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-09-11

Monday, September 11th, 1978

The concert continues … the players rearrange themselves
careful not to lose your identity as the roles change
what you are must be independent of who you’re with
or you can lose yourself if they leave.

The evening allowed me my time alone
the music, the running, the book by Irwin Shaw
that Kathy gave me … I think on every page…she read this.

I’m thirty … is it so bad … I love … am loved
if someone comes, stays or leaves … is it so bad?
can it be so bad if I am constant, if I can resist
the maddening urge to ‘need’ love in order to feel OK
resist the urge to invest myself
at the first sign of acceptance from another.

Just love them as they are, as they come…
am I a coward … Kathi said I hedge my bets
but she says this from inside a marriage

I just don’t know … I’ll invest all I can
without losing myself or my beliefs
and if its too hard, I’ll pull back.

I cannot do better
win or lose
and so the concert continues….

gallagher

11 september 78


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

1978-09-12

Tuesday, September 12th, 1978

Sensuous sister I see you … us … in the pages
of Shaw’s Rich Man, Poor Man.
Our lusty need to win winning out
beyond names and roles … our hours passionate
like his characters are lusty.
Our pasts springboards into lives and futures;
the options, the futures, the magic and the dead ends,
I see us there in his pages
and here in our days.
No regrets in these living hours
I hope you’ll always be my sister and my friend.

gallagher

09-12-78 about/to kathy a.

long beach


— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —