"The Open Gyre"
What is it that draws us
toward each other,
threading your life
through mine like
yarn through a needle?
The women in my life are
mixtures of light and dark,
laughter and tears.
They are complex braids
spilling through my fingers.
They are swirling cross-currents
within a deep, swift river
and they are the fish in the river,
too, the beauty of dappled things,
their thighs freckled like fine trout.
[To be continued ...]
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