Between

"I want this to be yours
in the sense that if you find it and read it
it will be there in you already"
                  - ADRIENNE RICH, 'Leaflets'


Lying alone I am just
Between the first touch
And the last,
One long night
of you and I.
My skin is the space
Where you are not.


August 17, 1997
© Lela Kaunitz