The Human Touch 2013 - University of Colorado Denver
The Human Touch 2013 - University of Colorado Denver
The Human Touch 2013 - University of Colorado Denver
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Wondering<br />
Allison Kimball<br />
I: I’ve Been Wondering<br />
“Darren?”<br />
“Yes?” your attentive blue eyes reply.<br />
I’ve been wondering<br />
if the experience <strong>of</strong> the poems and the recreational math,<br />
the harmonies and the vistas, could be made more whole<br />
if our hands could hold<br />
that vibrance between them.<br />
But maybe –<br />
maybe if I kept these fragile halves together,<br />
protected them through the airport bustle and jostle<br />
from this coast to the foothills <strong>of</strong> <strong>Colorado</strong>,<br />
it would mean we were meant to be connected.<br />
“Close your eyes and open your hand.”<br />
I lightly placed the symmetrical shell and you smiled.<br />
But then –<br />
by an unearthly animation that somehow understood the meaning<br />
with which I had endowed this tiny piece <strong>of</strong> sea debris,<br />
gravity tripped,<br />
the shell fl ew,<br />
split,<br />
and I knew. •<br />
I’ve been wondering<br />
if our sum would be greater than the greatest parts<br />
we have yet to uncover in each other<br />
if the leaves <strong>of</strong> trust<br />
could fully unfurl between us.<br />
I’ve been wondering<br />
if you’ve been wondering the same thing.<br />
II: Wonder No More<br />
I found the shell where the sky crashes as waves to the shore,<br />
the only two joined into one I saw all day.<br />
Like a butterfl y, the two halves made a whole,<br />
united from the beginning.<br />
I eased the pair from the sand,<br />
thought it might be nice to give to you,<br />
a last ditch effort to save what I considered<br />
a boat already fi lling with an unstoppable fate.<br />
PG 12<br />
PG 13
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