To everyone whom I have spent a night with

Love does not happen in a
Set space or time,
Sometimes it happens in one
Small
Seemingly for fun alone
Moment
And sometimes it spans years or decades.

It holds me alike either way
And I find myself reflecting on
Everyone with whom I have spent an evening
More commonly these days
And much more fondly.

There was love
Even within other love
And maybe there always will be.

Surely, there always will be.

We watched Harper reelected,
Consummated years of built-up lust,
Snuck away to your jeep,
Frequently tents or spent time laughing in a tent shared with a friend,
Spent time as three in a shower for two ,
Exchanged pictures or videos,
There was no limit to the fun.

The fun ends they all say,
But maybe they never experienced the fun that I had,
Or they didn’t understand that this fun
Could be built and sustained by two and two alone,
Granted you had the right two.

Australia,
Newfoundland,
Quebec,
British Columbia,
Taiwan,
And of course Sudbury,
Thank you everyone and everywhere.

Life is much less painful and gruesome
When a bed is filled with two or three
than when it is one,
And there have been tens of twos.

Once more with feeling

A steel bucket with stagnant water,
Calcium collecting with soap residue,
the heat from the sauna burns it all until it
Is the bucket also.

And the water begs for something fresh,
A splash of multi-coloured dye to smack down
Altering the water forever and making it
New.

There have been splashes before
With two for one and also
Some of the brand new loves,
But it’s mostly worn-out and the same.

And now there you are,
A splash of colour in the grey-rainy world
Poised to set my world on fire,
If we let you.