touch she pushes against my leg opening my hands to hold her sweat beads and breaks along her back a statue’s shadow stopped in gesture her head turns and catches my breath hands holding mine she clings to me to pass this night touches and as quickly moves away dina falls in bound in my arms weary child eyes look back as her finger slides and my eyes become more timid than my hands both of us are there and I become aware you see more clearly than I the spaces that shift between us then disappear shared laughter never lies and this time I’ve caught amanda in disguise walking through your past demons shadow you protect you haunt your presence with their rage and insist you hold a window but all I see is a mirror hair brushes along her back arched as a lioness tired of the hunt through her touch I feel my skin in her eyes I forget as a child lost again