This Poem was Submitted By: Doug Shy On Date: 2001-10-09 00:48:30 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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upon your return from Thailand

as if you had wrapped the impossible presence of your long absent arms around a solid oak, a tower, was what it all soon became as I cradled you and felt your breath fall on me, hot and near, and kissed you, stranger, awkwardly as a child does a doll, and straightened your clothes with my hands, as a few more shuddering planes landed, as did the hundred ways you suggest happiness to me, also, and you were much too busy returning my kiss to notice that your arrival had settled me so much deeper into this ground, so solidly and still, so far above it.

Copyright © October 2001 Doug Shy


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