us writers are people watchers, we see things in the seemingly ordinary moments...
the lovers – den anker
have you seen time stop?
two lovers slowed the clocks in their world
with one touch one look
they sit, heads turned to the still moving water
through the restaurant’s glass
wall, watch the setting sun
turn a sky lonely in shades of pink.
she tucks his mousy brown hair
behind his ears
then one stroke two strokes
with the back of her fingers
against his left cheek.
in that single gesture,
he knows
his head is turned to the mountain; eyes lost as
he smiles
and in that slow instant
as his cheeks
rise to meet his eyes,
she knows too
©Toni Stuart, December 2008
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