Re-union

Fried garlic, lemon, sea-salt on the air,

Coffee brewing , sunlit room , morning, you, there.!

Black curls glistening, wet from ocean rush,

Fiery droplets  your body spangle, as  in naked hush

You go to the window,   step slow and certain,

And across  the blazing blue ,draw a bamboo curtain.

Shadows stripe and tiger us,  to the narrow bed

We stalk,   no sign giving of who leads, who is led.

Eyes upon each other,  we mouth  savage  smiles,

For we were separated by more than  travelled miles.

That reckoning of what was owed, and what was due,

We tear to little pieces , from this moment all is new.

Kisses smother grudges, salve bitter exile’s scar,

Until at longing  last we have made near, from far.