Nostalgia in 3
11/21/01
SM Fishman

Its just like when
that songs comes on
the radio and nostalgic
smile overcomes you
as you descend back
to that moment in time
when you didn’t just
hear that song –
you lived it.

It’s just like when
you flip through pages
of your photo album
and you remember ever
so fondly those times,
those pages of your life.

It’s just like when
you come across an old friend
and reminisce about
“the good old days”
laughing as it were
yesterday – wishing it was.
Faded kisses
12/01/01
SM Fishman

When I kissed your neck and inhaled your taste,
you knew you were going to leave something with me.

The fragrance of you still lingers
on my hands, the collar of my shirt
and in my mind.
A kissed impression
12/4/02
SM Fishman

And all I could think about
Intoxicating
was that kiss, that moment
Intoxication.
So lost in your mouth
sparkling
in your eyes, your gaze.
And all I could think about
the next day – the recovery,
was that session with you.
4 hour relationship in Vegas
4/5/03
SM Fishman

Though I’ll never hear from you again,
or if I do, your words will be plain, distant,
I’ll never forget you there, waiting, wondering.
The laser light gleaning off your pierced perfect nose
and your deep brown eyes.
The gaze you gave me danced into my memory
looking up, intense.
For those few hours of pulsating bars,
sweaty crowds and liquefying kisses
you were truly consumed in my head, endless
as your Montana prairies.
Your breath is gone
7/1/04
SM Fishman

I’ll always remember you
For who you are, were.
Deep. Passionate.
Esoteric. Soft.

And I may always wonder
why our paths ran parallel
instead of as one.
Your lipstick imprints on a letter,
black satin sheets,
ambient music on a tape,
soft and sensual
words unspoken and
left to our fates
setting sail to different oceans.
She loved me with a letter
7/1/04
SM Fishman

You were the only one
who loved me, with
a subtle passion,
a Neruda sonnet.

And your love was
incarcerated, trapped
in a letter and
not released, hidden.
Buried in ink.

Left for me to touch,
tear, and read to myself
wondering how it would have
sounded from your lips.