Eternal Summer: 1&2

 1.  in purposeful softness 
your hands: your lips
hooking up in your mate’s jet hair 
like a furry caterpillar 
on its way somewhere else 
arches its-self
– this is the scene i watch over: that watches over me
you two throwing down soft kisses 
quick quick – slowly catching up 
the kisses offered back
until you’ve said everything soft kisses can say 
then you try harder

2.  sixteen years after
this changed old face of mine 
still freshens in waves of light from the screen 
though of your careers in middle age all i’ve disinterred
are happy-to-be-working-guns dramas
– have i missed it? the tenderness you showed
and showed to me
is it present elsewhere in your filmographies? 

and might we? for this imaginary sequel 
set in the canteen of the soul 
be able to dispense with the fright of your original meet cute 
ditch those side dishes of loneliness and hangover soup
your use of woman-as-object-of-exchange-between-men 
or is it that? without some femme 
you won’t release your sexual tenderness pheromones 

the actors’ craft 
to seep delight 
in who we each are 
– she’s still a photographer 
but her nymph wings drying she’s now flying
and what’s the story if you two take over the supporting roles: together?

note

Eternal Summer is a 2006 Taiwanese movie directed by Leste Chen. I suspended my disbelief in its depiction of sexual kindness. It’s available on Netflix. It has stellar performances from its trio of main characters. I wanted a sequel…