Archive for the ‘Irvine’ Category

1984-01-26 Kathy M. II

Thursday, January 26th, 1984

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 —

1984-01-30 Kathy M. III

Monday, January 30th, 1984

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 —

1984-01-30 Kathy M. IV

Monday, January 30th, 1984

Kathy M. IV

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

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —