What are these faces we have— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
but the graven images of what went before.
Every face, every feature
of strength or beauty
reflects someone who survived
in the genetic pool.
We’re so many and so sanitary now
with our educations and mass media.
But then, during most of man’s growth,
men survived by strength and brutality
and woman by their sexual charms.
Tumbling fortunes on stages so small
that the next feudal estate was legendary.
From dark ages, lost dynasties,
and forgotten lovers
come our faces that have seen
and been much.
And we wear them
and think all that is lost.
gallagher
11 feb 86
Irvine
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1986-02-11
Tuesday, February 11th, 19861986-02-19
Wednesday, February 19th, 1986December, January, and February— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Someday, perhaps, she’ll be by
wanting to settle into the patterns
of this life.
Until then, she can never ‘just see me’.
It always has to ‘mean’ something,
be something, go somewhere.
I’m sorry, Kathy.
With you I’ve never understood why
just love and friendship weren’t enough.
So today, once again, we part.
We drop our sexual magic
and this friendship that tried
to transcend the years
and the marriages and the lovers.
gallagher
19 Feb 86
raining in Irvine and Hawiian gardens
1986-02-19
Wednesday, February 19th, 1986People won’t be with others— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
unless the others can give them something
and yet we have a built-in need
to be with others that won’t let us rest
so we resist compromise and the terror of aloneness
at once
and tell ourselves so many
stories along the way.
gallagher
19 Feb 86 #2