Intimacy Open Wide
By, Mark Kroytor
My sweet family friend,
I know who you are
As you transmute into different names and voices and branches and twigs,
You’ll be my greatest adversary,
Like a parasite needs a host,
We share a common face
So whenever you feel at home is the four walls within my own,
Arms spread in openness; inviting in their warmth
A range of trees, castor and palm, birds and bees, a slamming tide
At the touch of a finger
We’re as common as everything
Trickling into one
We’ve never met before
But I can see just who you are.