Watching Shadows Play

Policar, 1998

Words without substance:
  No throat or mouth to shape them.
    Pattern for your eye.

Voice without substance:
  Listen to sparks through a wire.
    Pattern for your ear.

Face without substance:
  Patches of moving color.
    Watched, never watching.

Flesh, warm and massive:
  Yours, and near you another's.
    Watching shadows play.