two fit backs to the wall;
we were hidden from the crowd
by an innocent piano.
we kissed and groped—awkward
_____unusual and petrified——
searching for the source to
_____this new collection of feelings,
but afraid of finding it here.
an affair that only weighed
us down for fifteen seconds
will take as many lives to forget:
getting caught by your mother,
kissing for the first time
on your holy communion day.
4 comments:
I love it, too! And you have every reason to. It captures the thrill of that first trespass so aptly! That's why I loved "Naked" so much. And I think it's perfectly ok that we love our poems; if we don't, how could they stand a chance of being loved by others?
thank you dearest. i'm glad i'm not the only one who loves it ^__^
i am not very religious in that i don't got to church, never went to bible school or had a communion or any of that stuff... but i was under the impression that first communion was around 10 years old. anyway though, they were young and being naughty ^__^
There is something so vivid about that age and those experiences. You make this a link to our own pasts and it is so stong an experience as to be really startling when it opens up for us. Beautiful, dear Katy!
With just a few words, you've captured the hot faces and clammy hands of that first kiss...
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