M. M. FISHER, 64, Salt Lake City, Utah, is a well-known award-winning poet whose creativity is not limited to the bardic art. As a gifted seamstress, her artistic talent with needle and thread extends through several genres of sewing, a field from which she is not retired. Her sign is Virgo.
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This Is Not A Love SongI'm out of practice writing music; besides, you told me once your ear was tin. I remember that--and everything: blacksmith shoulders spreading your shirt, big tanned hands, humor curling like cat toes behind hazel eyes--that whole King Tom aura you never seemed to trade on--just there, crackling like static charge across your skin, and mine. I still see you leaning on a corral fence-- the good, no nonsense boots, the long legs bracing your back against a pole-- discussing mountain deer trails, discovering we rode the same ones. I remember the dappled gray you always rode up there alone. My appaloosa would have paced that big gray well. But this is not a love song; you were ten years into marriage with children before I ever saw you. You said--once--with all the questions in those green-flecked eyes, your lady had never really liked to ride, and I've always liked men's company just as friends--oh; I can rationalize as well as anyone.....at times. But you're the one I couldn't dare--could keep for all these years, only for the daydreams. So this is not your love song, smith, since we never made the music-- just its lyrics.....for me, remembering.
M. M. Fisher
Salt Lake City, Utah |