ENTER THE DARK

1.

 

I offered myself to her

As a man would:

Extending himself

In the warm dark

 

2.

 

Ready to do the calming work

Of settling the nerves

Of straightening a course

Too long serpentine.

 

3.

 

Too cold to speak

The words would just stick

And we’d forever catch

Ourselves

Naked in the barrenness between speech and thought.

 

 

                                    (c) jim hill (9-26-03)