Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The girl who smiles back

Back at the trail
I walked last week,
but  now a jet-
haired woman

walks too, and the chaparral
floods into sea,
turtles with moss-
covered backs

swim, I strip,
ask her to enter,
and we dip

*

I sit up, tend
to flea bites
and scratch
my terrier's
ear.

I never met
this woman

exactly, though
her hair I've liked
in one, her eyes

another. A dream
composite girl

my elusive piece
meal--I will always
see you only there.

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