Relationship

By Terra Wolfe

If you were a woman
we could spend these afternoons
rambling over hillsides
while we nibbled on ideas.
We could offer our words
wit no thought of tearing greedily at flesh, at flesh.

If I were a man
you would let me climb 
all over your bulldozer
and crawl under your car.
You would teach me the mechanics
and let me touch the tools,
with no thought of a vise closing around us.

If we were like the others
we would have dinner dates
and understandings.
We'd huddle in bedrooms 
with beer and TV.
close in on each other
and on ourselves.

Between us there are many levels
of touching and never touching.
We must fly our own currents
that cross when they cross

And always I am a woman.
And always you are a man.

Copyright Terra Wolfe 2006

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