I was standing doing the dishes
after Rebecca and Yuki
invited me over for Sunday omelets
and poetry.
Yuki leaned over the dish water and
whispered, “We should get together someday soon-
we could have sex.”
I chuckled and answered, “Perhaps after our first
coffee together.”
Later, I walked Yuki out to her car,
“I’d like to go home with you and have sex all night, but I have to get
up early tomorrow and teach Spanish.”
“Yeah, that’s OK. I’ll call.”
“My birthday is in October, I’m Aries,” she said,
and she went off somewhere talking about Jupiter
rising and left me standing there for6 minutes. “What’s your birthday?” And off
she went again-
Mars to Leo descending somewhere-
as I scanned the sky. “Come here, I finally said softly. Come here.”
She moved in close.
I took her by the shoulders and gently
turned her around.
“Look over there. What’s that?“That? That’s the full moon,” she said.
We both laughed,
and I held her close as we stood watching it in silence.
