On A Summer's Night

and so, (on a summer's night)
I want to go on talking to you
as freely and intimately about what we live and die for
as if I knew you
better than anyone else whom you know,
on a boat, just by ourselves
as the purple darkness engulfs us
into the night.



(inspired by Tennessee Williams' Person to Person)

[editor's note: Blogger doesn't let me format the poem as I want it to; thus, 'On a Summer's Night' is aligned hard-left]

'On A Summer's Night' taken on July 26, 2008 at Bei Hai Gong Yuanr (Beijing, China).