SHADE

By: Bradford Greer

He wondered why?

Crouched in a little shade he wondered why

He was sharing intimacies with this man

After such a short acquaintance.

Perched on a rock in a slow moving river

He wondered how?

How could it be that in the short moment

Of time they’d spent in one another’s company

They were both so naked and free

He didn’t realize his dark hair sparkled

With water drops that cascaded

Down the smooth skin of his shoulder.

He didn’t know his brooding thought

Had been caught, captured forever

By the long-lashed eyes of his new friend.

No one knows how truly beautiful he can be

That one special moment: say

Perched on a rock in a slow moving

River wearing nothing but a little shade.