I now have known two very distinct sides of him-
firstly, the sweet brother I woke up beside with the sunlight
well over a year ago at science camp
who loved to say “awwwww, you’re singing!”
and tickled me and let me sit on his lap
and secondly
in the half-lit ambience of my bedroom
only two nights ago, as Sunday dawn rose
the tender and sensual young man
without his glasses and without his shirt
who kissed me to near ecstasy
this image captured forever between my peeking eyelashes.
my bear skin 