I didn't expect it then, there, but not, no, not then. Small, and many times, unaccustomed to my home a yet; Positively I peered forward, waiting on lights until a clutter of voice and hello, alerted me, to a presence.
And it was her presence. I knew, recognized, and clanged that empty cold bell into a singing steeple.
Hit from the side, I puttered to my feet and struggled into hellos and the long-awaited, paltry, embrace.
mywordsrolledout anddownthefrontofmyshirt ontotheground for others to walk unwittingly across
She, usurping pauses, whispered speech out in a harbored dammed-up way, but like sounds of birds bathing in streams.
Our modesty admired and shown its countenance onto our not-so-betraying pleasantries.
She sat. I sat. small. and many times unaccustomed to here.
I peered positively forward awaiting lights to rest easy and with grace on the presence - to whom - the blades of grass beneath bowed.
Sinking into me, a spring, pure, of two souls whom, are admired because they pretend not to know; they curtain themselves from each other just because of what they aren't ready to show.