


14. SISTER WITH BICYCLE DREAMS
She lives in a town so small
Everyone knows too much
Secrets are like clothing
Once removed one is naked
Like the winter earth...
Leafless trees and baren brush
The swollen stream beneath
The old bridge of cold cement
Unclothed
She dreams a bicycle dream
She dreams of loving
Rocky and cool
Rocking in school
Dreams of loving
Rushing and torrential
And the touching potential
Always murmuring
"I love you"
She dreams of a girl
Who loves a girl
Who wants to flow
Around the world.
She said to me:
"RomTom I'm nineteen years old.
I've made love with fifty men --
And it's taught me
ONE THING
That I know for sure --
That I'm a lesbian girl..."
Bicycle girl
Fall Creek girl
Girl of icy streams
And bicycle dreams...