for J.
.
.
Attempting to list colors in the she-and-he
of you, there was no color you could be.
Then there was that great offender –
that divisive strange abstraction “gender”:
.
is or was there anybody you could call
yourself you can remember? I recall the very
essence of you in my arms. Minutes after
you arrived, I told (not asked) you to take
.
all your clothes off. You unembarrassedly did –
or anyway, in such a trance of unbelieving,
that to rid yourself of trappings seemed
the only thing to do. And it hadn’t passed
.
you that my voice was one that you could hear,
and that to hear it seemed to lessen fear.
So goes the self-approval whose removal I’d
soon need to undergo as deeply and completely
.
as I had delighted in your sweet arrival. We
were talking about mutual survival. Which
apparently depended upon love. Is love
a glove you put on or take off? I suggested
you could love as many or as much of anything
or anyone as it befell you to pursue. None
of that would trap you, not if it was love. You
looked me in the eye. “You sure that’s true?”
.
I took you in my arms again, as if to say what
then I said, “well, look at me and you.” “What
colors then are you?” you replied. “Oh, any
colors you decide.” I think, though, that I lied.
.
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