dinner

[gamine3]

I saw him just then
happy before all faded back
beneath the everything unholy that clouds
his every thing

I saw him just then
the young father she said
'my young shaw-vwah'
and rubbed his arm softly

I saw him just then
and he was the same only different
the way marriage is the second
time around

I saw him just then
obscure and dark and away and
sitting just there, just there
just on the edge of being

I saw him just then
his face an echo like voices through a fan
like the dripdripdrip of Proverbs
or honey

I saw him just then
I saw him
I saw
I