Rain Music Duet

a pair of paired legs were the twin tuning forks that struck flesh supple sounds
heartbeats fell in step with rain drops that moistened two dust prints on the ground
drops pound slap plop happy down, danced all around our makeshift warming shelter
our two arms the stroke of love's making forge, our two breaths to stoke its smelter

From Sidewalk Chalk To Pillow Talk Genius

kid hopscotch games is what made us fast friends, first by ones and then by twos
we double dutch jump roped, played king of the hill upon backyard hourglass dunes
those dust devil winds pulled down sands of time, wedged miles of walk between us
other sidewalk chalk tarts became the whos who taught arts of manic pillow talk genius

then rainfalls of time washed into dark gray our sidewalk chalk talk markings
coming storms made us run into the ark by twos away from the thunder's barking
tempests roared up from below our low waist equators, as we shared makeshift bedcovers
we danced hopscotch along, sang doo wah diddy bop songs, dreamed up names for every lover

old games and songs we pull into playback again as a grip on the running hourglass
try to turn the glass over, turn it sideway, every way but you cannot turn it past
for the fine grained moments flow out only one way, soon the tawny brassened base
holds a sphere cleared of all, our finale downfall, the trace of a life's spent grace