Monday, September 8, 2008

touchstone

face down on your stomach
back scratching
evening
this is the story i 
am telling minute by 
minute
constructing you from
the pile of bedsheets 
with hair
and eyes
i sometimes wonder what its
like for you when you
lean toward me to
press your face into 
this one 
what do you see 
a small storm of jaunty
lines light hair expressions
i am 
a puppeteer
peering from behind the screen
imagining the show he performs
but will never see
it is harder than we realize
to know oneself from 
backstage
then i look up at you for 
a moment
the breath of you experiencing 
this show of me and
i come suddenly and briefly
to the touchstone of 
myself

from there i can measure
all the rest

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