Familiar

"and if I'm hanging on to your shade
I guess I'm way beyond the pale"
		- TORI AMOS, 'The Doughnut Song'

for months i have not thought of you
but last night you came back to me
unexpectedly
while i slept.
you lay down beside me
and loved me
and told me you had fled
for fear of losing me.

and it was so familiar
the way you smiled
and lay down beside me
and the colour of your hair
and your blue eyes.

i woke up alone
and a long moment passed
the blank in my brain
and your phone number.


April 14, 1996
© Lela Kaunitz