The salad was first rate.
The pasta terrific.
The time passed too quickly.
When you ran off to make a phone call––
I waited with your coat
Like a cavalier.
You re-appeared
In dream form
Like an omen
Reaching out to me
Across the sexual abyss.
Then we hugged.
It was the earth.
You planted a poem
On my lips.
It was the moon.