Stranger 
your intimacy    
like water 
can be touched 
but not grasped.


Stranger 
"I" 
has a new meaning 
under the moist gaze 
spilt by your intimacy. 


Stranger 
your body-vessel 
pregnant with intimacy 
about to burst forth 
to meet another stranger 
but not me? 


Stranger 
your body contains    
its intimacy 
like a wetland 
protected    
for the reverberations 
of the mating call 
of that rare species.  


Stranger 
bridging the gap 
into the void of our longing 
I seek to know you.