Clay Hands - by @jmwhitmire

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By @jmwhitmire

Not to my surprise

You had already arrived

And began

I wasn't late, but you were early

Like always.


I found equal comfort

And distress of the sort

To notice you

In your usual workspace.


Towering over your pride

A clay sculpture unspecified

In which you'd tire away

Perfecting.


I'd take my seat, passions imposed

My body heat rose

Uncontrollably

Similar to fever

Or allergy.


I believed you knew, by nature

I silently adored you, stranger

I'd look your way, making sure you were

Still there


Eight paces from my chair

Was the distance we shared

Spanning the length of oceans, and mountains

Traveled by paper airplanes.


Oh, how I liked the magnetism,

Unable to fight this tourism

Imagining your body twirling around me

Like fingers through hair.


Please forgive the way I

Do not acknowledge your eyes

As you catch my glances, in the reflection

Of glasses.


Now, I could be wrong

If I assumed you longed

For me

However, curiosity compels me

To wonder, yes.


This may not be love, yet, I realize

Just infatuations, I recognize

Or a fondness for habit, and

Much desire.


Still, I have you know, my heart

Prompted the first start

Of conversation, with palms of clay

And compliments.

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