Gemini was standing behind the display table, at the edge of the beach
calling out with compelling confidence and gestures as if he owned the vast space
meeting all he did not already know, with his open, approachable, friendly smile
asking to join him in a sip of tea
the tea was cool
refreshing during a walk on the summer beach
familiarity in a foreign place,
and that one sip of tea was a trajectory onto a new path,
and life-raft buoyancy out of dark seas
Scorpio sauntered along a side wall, taking his calculated time,
waiting for everyone else in the room to take their leave,
then with mesmerizing eyes, caught her gaze
took her hand and recited outloud her most secret dreams, making them
somehow more real with the sharing
