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| Dwight Stevers |
| The Reading |
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| - for Varian |
| Through the lens of intimacy
we touched the tender center, whispered secrets of the light and merged our flesh with breath. We sifted through essential memories so each of us could gather fuel, warming ourselves at the hearth being built. Lifting up the veil before us I saw you as completion. You saw me as silence. And ever between us, awareness in all its simplicity. We sensed the flowering of our past coming through to plant infant seeds – boy-children at play. Through cards turned over, we investigated souls and hearts. Through bedroom playgrounds, passion blossomed at the feet of satyrs. You push and I pull – the dance we've done through time – each of us taking turns with the steps, the partners ever-changing – always you and I in our complexity, whispering fears and lust, quenching our thirst from a cup called trust. What we create is beauty. What we create is joy. Clarity is our creation. What we create is love. Together we turn over the card and all is revealed. |
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