touch

The poet has a small statement he wishes to communicate.

"Effective immediately, I am abandoning the use of totem-muses in my writings. 'When I was a child, I spoke as a child.' But I am a man, and I have seen the fulfillment of my heart. No veils. No shadows. No masks. That I have in the past, played abstractions to make lesser things seem more grand is not to their disservice, but mine own." - William F. DeVault, January 16, 2008.

And he passes along this poem to his lady, Candy.

touch

I will touch you
by your leave and let.
answering questions you asked
when my heart tasked me to love you
with a fire that passes all understanding
of what I thought I knew
before you touched me
in ways long held
to be impossible.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.