with mud between our toes
we laughed and ran;
the meanwhile was the only while
we could understand —
and days stretched into lakes
stretched into bodies
knowing something of each other:
as mud trailed into darkened rooms,
and thoughts turned into lakes
and hands to clouds
and shallow breaths we tried
to smother
To share is human:
Vital, youthful, urgent.
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