two minutes
standing on
a street corner
crowded morning cars buzzhorns honk
street buses pass me by
dark sky threatens
and i lit a cigarette
i watch her
step from a cab
a long-ago memory
dimmed by age & wine
of time immemorial
reminiscent
a sort of whatever
she smiles faintly
in recognition
i cross the street
walk to her
rain falling
street noise deafening
thunder echoes
flashes of light arch across the mid-town
panorama
& i speak her name in a whisper
& she remembers
eyes wide
as we embrace
as the taxi pulls away
as a police car pauses
as dreams reengage
as people pass us by
& i kiss her
just as i had the last time
we touched
jacklyn henry
jacklyn henry is a genderqueer writer based on the
fringe of sanity, Los Angeles. she has had some success of late at: delicate
friend, flying dodo, H S T, pink disco, cream scene carnival, and, in a
different lifetime, ariel chart.