SamadhiMuse

                        Reflection on Rose
                  She’s so competant at being a real person
                  that you just don’t notice
                  that you don’t have anything
                  in common with her.
                  Bravo, I say, and with love.
                                    gallagher
                                    11 jan 89
                                    san juan capistrano
                                    

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            Some debts need to be cleared
               tonight I looked at some poems
               that I’d missed in Rose’s poetry compilation
               from a few years back.
            And I found the first one I ever wrote about her
               and the last one that ended and summed us.
               And I felt all those years between
               when the moonlite crossed Chris’ face in 86.
            Now she’s married and pregnant and we’re easy friends
               and I want to give her these things
               to say ‘thank you, bless you, Rose.’
               the best to you, whom I loved so long.
                                 gallagher
                                 22 feb 89
                                 San Juan Capistrano
                                 

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —