SamadhiMuse

                     Taking Ron’s truck home
         Capture these days
            The desert sun and the indian miles
         Durango, Flagstaff … the San Luis Valley
         All the hours Kathi and I talked and made love
         The evenings there in other cities
         The day we bussed across southern Colorado
            and walked thru Colorado Springs
         and, finally, the flight from Denver
            and the rocky mountain’s massive lines
         Ron and Sally’s trailer, Kathi and I, and they
            the easy friendship and how, smoking grass,
               I saw Kathi’s spirit shine so clearly
         Hugh Prather’s book, we read …
         across the Arizona desert
            in the Durango motel
               and in the Trailways bus
                  oblivious to those around us
         Dinners and smiles in Flagstaff
            making love driving … and atop Wolf Creek pass
         Sunshine hours and days pressed, living,
            between the beginning and end of our journey
         Here on the ground again, with Colorado just four hours old
            it all seems forever distant
         But here the impress of Kathi’s spirit remains
            with its honesty and passion and intelligence
               and, most of all, with its free standing love.
                        gallagher
                        Long Beach – about Kathi K. & I going to
                                     Colorado
                        06-13-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                        KK and Colorado
         What changed with her in the mountains?
         her spirit and candor spoke straight to me
         until I could resist no more
         and now her eyes mean something to me.
         How strange … does love create its own reflection?
         no matter, its right … I miss her love.
         How could I not love this woman?
         Strong and open, intelligence and thoughtful,
         loving and needing love, independent and fair,
         she’s a wonder of a human being ….
         The more I see into her … the more I see
         every question squarely dealt with and answered
         every emotion lived … not hidden ….
         But I suppose, most of all, its her love,
         her love that she gives so freely,
         that I need most and least understand.
         I hope she doesn’t find me lacking
            as she dances her heart into mine.
                           gallagher
                           Long Beach – about Kathi K.
                           06-14-78

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —