By Ruby in the Dust
Date: 4 September 1997

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful stranger
     in your blue car at the red light
your gentle eyes
and poet's mouth
a gift of the traffic.

I see your unlocked door and mine
You put your hair behind your ears, revealing, invitation

 
               I count the seconds of my chance
               I watch you as you drive away
               Each atom of exhaust, each inch
               A bullet from the gun of never.