I like the Way....

 

Lipstick and Mascara III mixed media on paper 20 x 20 cm

I LIKE THE WAY…

I like the way that shirt fits.

Yes, flannel can look girly.

Where Were You? I looked

not everywhere only in the piazza,

the square, the exquisitely well-lit

Plaza Mayor. I am not ready

to climb over nor under everything

thin, uneven or crooked to find you.

No bridges, no canals in Venice, no buttered

scones or stack of waffles sticky with syrup

consumed non-intellectually in a Berkeley diner

while I speculate about the ins-and-outs of your body.

On the other hand, glad I haven’t met you yet. Me,

that folly on two legs, its tongue hanging out, saying

how do you do, nice to meet you, the pleasure’s all yours.