Love Letters to & between Men
are composition easy, the components, blunt edged,
declarations of affection, without affectation
verses but not stanzas, are all that required,
homer direct, no fanciful piping, no trimming needed
your strength, character, manly wistfulness,
gives me leave to grasp your shoulders all about
no feverish whispers, no cloaked hush, delicately interfering,
only an “I love you man,” a simple declarative compositional
firmly pronounced, eye to eye, hand to shoulder embraces,
acknowledged with crinkly eyed smile, met with a summarizing
“me too.”
2/12/2020
2:25am