She was Far from A Virgin

"Thoughts before sleeping"

She was far from a virgin when I first met herBut every time is a first time for me.Every kiss,every sigh,every tearis a new beginning.She was far from a virgin when I first met her,now I see myself in her...

She isn’t petite and bouncy Like a Bugeye Sprite Or a cheerleader Darting around corners  But bouncing with every bump in the road. And she isn’t long and lean Like an XK 120 Or a marathon runner Eating up curves and...

Skylark (for Lainey)

"Attending to the flight of song"

I thought to instruct the birds--now, wings bowed and boundI'm sinking in the diminishmentof a skylark’s looney tune Larking, loose-limbed and giddyturning skycarts in the dappled sunwhile I, enchanted, shrinkTo a little pool of bedazzlement--

Ode to Young Men

"all youth is not callow.... ;-)"

Young men freely speak their desires, their tenderness, their arousal. Unlike more “mature” men they have not that wariness of the expectations of women, that fear of committing themselves by momentary sentiments. They fearlessly walk out on the ice expect...