By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 16 November 1998

ambivalent hostess

crazy as ever
we come together
  two misfits
 out of tune
 with the world

in your eyes
i recognize
that arctic loneliness
that tundra terror
that I call home
in your kiss
i find myself
fumbling, uncertain
a lost gypsy
with only
the stars
in the sky

and I could never
  be the one
to finish what
  was never begun
if this is true love
 I'm not aware
but you fill
  my arms
and I
 don't care