©Shrouding Us
in Moonlit Darkness
Mimi
Wolske, May 2014
Mimi
Wolske - Mona Arizona™
All Rights Reserved
Wind
whistled through the caverns
of
the canyon, the warm breeze
whirling
dust speedily across
the
floor and abrading the rock
layers
of the canyon walls.
"Damn,"
I whispered, and wiped
away
the rancid perspiration
dripping
from my face and from
under
my arms with a second,
already-soaked-in-sweat bandanna.
I
wrung the kerchief and tucked
it
into my pocked with the
folded
envelope that enclosed
the
letter from you, the one
waiting
for my overdue reply.
My
boots crunched over the
dry
earth, the wind rasped in
my
ears, and I saw little at the
horizon
through the dust as bits
of
rocks bit at my neck and face.
In my
kaleidoscope memory
is
where you come back to
me
and those feelings that
hitched
a ride with you, it's
those
feelings I'll always have.
I
placed one foot in front of
the
other and thought—wondered—
how
the devil could place handsome
you
with your crooked angel smile
in my
path if it wasn't right.
You
always take a step back
when
I fall apart and gaze
into
my eyes before you take
me in
your arms; do you
see
the love in my eyes?
You've
taken me places I
never
knew existed; should have
known
you were trouble from
the
beginning but, like
they
say, love is blind.
Remember
when you flipped
the
light switch by the door
shrouding
us in moonlit darkness
and I
measured your every
move
with a lover's desire?
"Damn!"
I said aloud, and kicked
the
dirt with the toe of my boot;
I
fell into your life as if you
were
my sovereign, a ruler of
my
heart...in time, you were; actually,
From
the first night when you
conquered
and claimed me and
called
my your own until
your
request for an answer to
the
only question that mattered.
I
pulled the bandanna again and,
unknown
by me, the envelope
fell
to the hard, dry ground...
I
wondered if you would be happy
I
decided to come see you rather than write.
(painting: Artist unknown, Lovers Under The
Desert Sky, 1920s)
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