Collision with an Unseen Wall

They huddle over a small map.
The two of them surround it,
point, gesture, argue,
shift position,
smile, grimace, croon,
woo, sunder and build.

They hover about
a shoulder high wall -
unseen, impenetrable.
They lounge by it.
Flirt over it.
Attempt to melt it
in passionate embrace
and fall back befuddled,
entranced by incomprehension
that they are caught
by an unseen glue.

RD Savage
                             06/23/91
© 1991
Published in South Ash Press - 11/91



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