In cool sand
damp between my toes
lie shallow patterns
of feet and lovers
waiting for tide
to hide them
The sun never sets here
The silence of that half lit night
that half dark night
leads me back to other nights
and other nights yet
other worlds almost
I walk that beach
I laugh that night
I hope again
the hope of
oh so trusting youth
We ran the forest floor
and whispered
Why I thought
there’s no one here to hear
Not to wake the mosquitoes
she said
and I smiled while fog
hugged the trunks
with silent veils
I sensed it then
this stirring
this notion of a stirring
I’ll soon be born
I knew
for real this time
The sun all up again
It’s only two a.m.
and we laugh to be alive
she with hair like a troll
I with thoughts like a troll
This summer calls
a distant life
as here as then
Mystique and love alike
flood back
and my aching heart
fills the Los Angeles spring
