TOUCH OF FEET 1962

A GIRL AND HER LOVE FOR A BOY AT HIGH SCHOOL IN 1962

Yehudit can't get
Benny out of her mind
even over dinner
when her mother

is griping off
about things
about the untidy room
and about chores

left undone
she still had Benny
on her mind eating away
thinking of him

of where she'd
like him to touch
and where and when
and even when

her mother asks
about school and things
she has Benny in mind
all the time

his eyes
his quiff of hair
and that afternoon
by the pond

when they lay there
watching the water's skin
the ducks
the fish beneath the skin

and he kissed her
and she wanted him
to do more
but well

she can't get him
out of her mind
and as she undresses
for bed

she thinks of him
pretending he's there
watching
waiting

and even when
her sister yaps
on about this
and that

about the feeding
of the rabbits
of the bird
catching cat

she thinks of Benny
and his kisses
and o God
what a feeling

o what a heat
and sits
on her bed
staring at

the touching he made
of her feet.