KISSING MOMENT 1962

A BOY AND GIRL AT SCHOOL IN 1962

How's your Mother?

Why do you asked?

Just wondered,
I say,
standing by Yiska  
by a school fence.

Usual moods;
moans at me;
always about my room
or the length
of my dress or skirt.

I thought she was ok
when I saw her last.

You've only met her once
on one of her rare
good days.

Sunlight brightens
Yiska's face;
her eyes reflect
two small suns
and me amongst them.

And your father?
How's he?

Why the interest
in my parents?
I'm the one
you should be
talking of,
Yiska says.

Where shall we kiss?

On the lips.

But where about
in space?

She smiles.

Behind the maths block?
Quiet there.

I look along the fence
to the blocks behind;
the window glass
reflecting the sun
and other aspects
of the school behind.

There's not much time.

Then here, then.

She looks at me;
her eyes drink me in.

I look about us;
kids in the playground,
out on the field,
passing by behind us.

She leans in;
her small breast
pressing against
my chest.

We kiss,
then move apart,
lips at rest.

Reviews

[Kelly Scheppers]

Was there anything better than the anticipation of a kiss? I think not. It pretty much made my world go round, when I discovered what a thrill it was. Of course, being the female gender, us girls were a little more reserved... to actually admit we enjoyed the heady delight of it!

"She looks at me;
her eyes drink me in." ...and that made the pulse quicken even more. Wonderful, Terry!

[Terry Collett]

Thank you, Katy. The first kiss I had from a girl( that mattered) was from Judith in December 1961. I was just 14 and she nearly 14. Sadly she died from cancer in 1993.