i
was
surprised
sue to touch
you were in high school
such a literary talent
while i shone bright among test tubes and dissected frogs
now fifty years later we meet – law degrees – both driving hybrids beyond the claimings of love and station
you count coup in birds spotted on tropical rivers while my poems and stories fly
in print and internet skies like the jolly roger
i wonder what complexity
might have spiced us had
we blended
our blood
back
then
