this is a small distant shock like a remote
earthquake that like each actual earthquake
is a tremor that in actual physical terms
is an actual, actual active tremor.
- there's a coincidence to this -
- i always play her records
- i know how tough her mission impossible can
sound
and of late
just by
coincidence
that wee purple green book type thing hanuman
book turned up, michelle noticed it, and this
jumped out at her, resonating, like:
" she came hom with me that night, and though
she resisted in a modest graceful way as she lay
in bed it was one of those times when the
understanding ran so deep, when the unknown
and the unspeakable things in us corresponded in
a way that made concious resistance the most
trivial formality, so that the entire evening took
place on another plane, like we were mythical
archetypes (she the moody ravishing willful
vagabond sex-kitten outlaw and me the brooding
prodigal young junkie poet pop-star alien), moved
purely by destiny...


funny how it all rhymes

thom gunn also this week gone
too late now to find the quote



oh

and she says

"been meaning to show it to you"
but did at last and
so it goes

will deliver thom gunn quote asanwhen

alas. there it is