believe in earning one’s own way
but I also believe in the unexpected
gift
and it is a wondrous thing
when a woman who has read your works
or parts of them, anyhow)
offers her self to you
out of the blue
total
stranger.
such an offer
such a communion
must be taken as
holy.
the hands
the fingers
the hair
the smell
the light.
one would like to be strong enough
to turn them away
those butterflies.
believe in earning one’s own way
but I also believe in the unexpected gift.
have no shame.
we deserve one
another
those butterflies
who flutter to my tiny
flame
and
me.
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