Serial Poem by Kevin Kiely

It happened in the Botanic Gardens
Another location for the ongoing serial
When we sat on a bench and talked


What is this reliable theme of song, book and movie?


Fantasies in candlelight, your nipple fruit
A string of seaweed around your waist, the slopes
Down to the hair in tangles, watery eyed
More than the full treatment, a new life

You were here yesterday in this filmic scene
The seaview hotel beside the woods
The pier, boats surfers
Swimmers, spouses children lovers

Fair woman sparkling near the ocean
You're not gone far
And it seems so very far
Even out of kissing distance

Why are you like the shifting grains in abundance
Do you give out medals as reward for endurance
Where will the plot move us next
And the sunset lose its fierce furnace look