Parental Affair
Trish Hopkins
For Aaron
tree-hemmed drive,
house-broken, childfree—
incommunicado and
serendipitous, this rekindling—
incognito, your
search warrant hands
navigate my thigh,
outlawed touches with
tarnished rings
abandon habit’s
noose grip, let
appetizing
cinema kisses,
renascent in
off-season salt air, make our
sketchbook memories
timekeep the
iambic poetry of our
cadent landscape
Copyright © 2005 American River Review
