This is what I love, the charged moment,
the moment of revelation, intimacy,
the words in italics To let someone know
what it is one wants. or needs, or is:
this is what I long to describe to you‚
though scared, suddenly alone in the world,
Me cold wind of the spaces between us
blowing through me as a raw afternoon
blows through no laundry. This is what I am,
then. a line of old socks, pajamas,
underwear dancing in the grayness like
Motive s cut..ur of the Inn years,
a spot of color here. a likely form there‚
yet it is the old roan’s gaiety I feel‚
watching as the world recedes from him.
Them is pleasure in this. and wisdom;
still. it is the movement of declining life,
no longer presenting to his beloved