Arms wrap around me tight and warm.
Reaching across my back and wrapping themselves around my shoulders snugly.
I've never felt more protected in my entire life for such a glimpse of a moment.
Sitting criss-cross on the dining room table so obviously miserable,
then encircled in a puzzling and startling embrace that
lasted seconds
but left me breathless.
It was so small.
Not one person has ever done that to me before.
How did you do it?
Why did you know it would leave me senselessly hopeful
and loved?
So undone.
Still helplessly confused about you.
Yet,
stepping around the perplexity,
ice skating across my heart,
I relish every moment of it.
-k.p.b.
{written on tuesday feb. 9}
