Rainy Day Romance
for Antoinette Bowe

some close calls, brushes with intimacy
quickly, our two hearts beating

but horses hooves you'd hear coming
would go by and leave silence

just breathing, heaving, sighing
situations like these

no doubt we've loved each other
mutually reaching out like now, like today

money for books I've written
always support, always interested

weak for her, have been for a long time

soft spot where she’s concerned

loved her at times fiercely, a blaze
somehow, somewhere, someone
would provide cold water

lessen intensity, almost put it out
dad, grandmother, herself occasionally

both of us guilty of aborting
what could have come to pass

we've lasted anyway,
after some love fashion or another

something elegant about us echoed
note a toning fork knows as well as a piano

a violin knows as well as a cello


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
2:48 p.m. 10.09.09