Tends

Did you see the present on the table?

Not in the living room. Dining room.

I walk with you up a hill towards the center of Parnell. I am curious. You must be tired but don't say anything. You start to tell me about it. I cannot believe it, I did not see that coming at all. My body fills up with excess energy, I must be shaking. I cannot help but laugh and smile. We walk lightly and are electric material, you the ray and I the cloud.

Knight

I had a conversation with a non-figure today. It moved slowly and emitted a perfect sound of a low-pitch which rang and rang as a bell would and I suddenly had very little to say to it.

It continued to communicate not through language but through sensory disruption. It reminded me of that special day that we had together, the only one of it's kind for me. I experienced terror on the real and so did you, and I saw you in ways I had never seen you before and watched as love walked around naked in the room going through laundry. That very long moment changed each of us, plunging us into places of fear and hilarity, looking for allies in a hostile bedroom, whatever sounded safe to us. Those couple of days were hard and impossible to articulate, and inspiring, and life-affirming.

Aid

I took you to that special place in Opoutere. We drove on unpaved road for twenty-five minutes, slipping into spaces of nothing and no one. That place holds value for me, it was one of the special places and times when we were over there and now I could show it to you. It a stretch of land forever empty and rich like a desert that will kill you. It was like a movie taking you there I suppose where the character returns to a place which was terribly important earlier on and now holds a different meaning but which memory will give up some space for the other?

The picture then jumped to another scene which featured a familiar apartment and folks and you were magic in the little boy's presence. You guide, you're lit up, and I am so proud of you. The boy looks down as you speak. You are honest, caring and helpful all at once, showering cholla.

Said in passing

I don't know if you understand how much that night meant to me. You left me lightweight and I remembered everything. All the important stuff I got again. I had just come in from work after the uphill climb from the bus stop my thoughts fiery red demanding and unforgiving. You were at home.
 
You looked into me and shook me right, I was a shook one. I saw that you had something, something for me, and that we must have something going on, I thought. I see all the details of that moment from the lighting to the walls and my expressions and yours and those bellowing feelings released an organ tossed from the deck.