.
.
If I laid watching you sleep in your bed
in the light that casts no shadow
and you slept hours on end, I,
watching the shadow of your first beard
slowly grow in the dimness, would that be the
symbol of yearning fit to know
its fulfillment?
.
.
I give you the starlit gaze of Montgomery Clift
upon John Wayne in Red River.
The seduction of Farley Granger on that long train.
In your restless sleep, don't speak, you'll ruin
this unnamed sky that casts no shadow.
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.
[end]
12 May 1996
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