Missing Her On The Subway


1.

More than twenty women occupy this car,
enough lips to stuff a pillow.
Some are sitting, but some hold the bar
so tight their knuckles turn yellow.

2.

I want to be inside your movie,
the killer in a soft gray suit
touching the fancy fringe of your shadow.
From a small warm pocket I shoot.

3.

Iım testing the water,
Iım dunking my toes.
Iım testing the water
because the water knows,
but the warm blood beneath
the sweet cut of waves
could never please me more
than the sight of your silver body
darting between sea caves.


Donald Zirilli
1997