_Incandesce_

Today is a loveday.

Light shines in a stranger's hair
	Jim smiles sideways.

Blair's is opaque.
Its sculpted darkness often 
 - on occasions past -
occasioned such a smile.

Jim wants to stop the stranger; beg
for a strange summer interlude,
for a meantime spell
(unepoch-like, impermanent, and
not falling into a lifetime)

He walks past
without looking past.
Instead lingers on
the every attribute
unlike Blair.

Return to darkness (not black, grey):
the familiarity of interior space
the everything familiar
like Blair.

Today is a loveday
And it ends with Jim
 - lassitudinous in bed - 
imagining he can apologise for his cruelty.