By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 22 October 1999

One Night in Heaven

I knew you for two nights
I knew your name
  [Dallas Dale Densman]
and the day you were born
  [September 30, 1975]
You were deaf in your left ear
and you lived in Keller
and you had a fuck buddy named Mandi
and a girlfriend named Missy
  [maybe you had a thing for girls]
  [whose names]
  [started with the letter "M"]
You were Mine
for two summer nights
I'll never
forget

I remember how we learned each other
in my friend's dark den
with black sheets
on the window
You were in bed
on the couch
and I was tempting you
from the chair
as we pretended to watch
MTV
and you were so excited
when you asked me
what color your eyes were
and I said Hazel
because everybody else
said they were greenish-brown
and you said
that bugged you

    we played mind games
    we flirted
    we played pretend
    when I boldly said,"Pretend I'm a horse and
you're going to ride me off into the sunset!"
    you banged your head
    into the pillow
    wanting me bad

and finally
you had me
on the blanket
on the floor
I had told you
I thought you
were a tease
and as you looked down into
my eyes and kissed
my lips
you said,"Now am I a tease?"
and I was appeased
as we began
The Dance
     you closed your eyes
       as you touched me
          and you touched me
             you said that heightened
                 The Sense of Touch

if you had proposed marriage
I would have accepted
but you returned home
to your girlfriend and fuck buddy
and forgot my phone number

...that was in 1995 and now I'm at the end of 1999
no less enchanted by my memories of You.