we had a summer
that was more than Summer
& Spring for a back-story
we no longer lived in –
had we ever?
we fought with words,
with images,
& then caressed them
as if we were making love,
shyly in front of screens
we had no intention of
hiding behind.
we were an odd coupling,
invisible characters
that touched each other
in cuts, trying to say
what we saw,
what we heard,
what we felt
in the spaces between
the pictures & words.
some times it was hard work,
but mostly we played
at inventing ourselves
& a language that might say
the un-sayable.
we were not always
careful with each other,
not always kind –
but we endured frustration
& broken sentences,
struggling against the eloquence
of unreachable silences
to liberate a story
strangely us.
- Billy Marshall Stoneking
wonderful
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