SENSE HER STILL

A MAN AND WOMAN ON HOLIDAY IN 1972

I watch her
Abela
as she sleeps

I've showered
now I sit
drinking tea

dressed and clean
I study
her body

lying there
one leg out
of the blue

bed covers
one slim arm
on her thigh

eyelids closed
like small shells
we had toured

street by street
the old part
of the town

part of the
evening
then drank in

some small bar
until late
last night sex

seemed like a
first class meal
I sit here

watching her
and sense her
body still.