Advice for an electrician

Advice for an electrician

         for Gary Glenn

Along electric wires await
the burn and sizzle,
that shocking embrace that holds you conscious
while two lives splice together.

One line cut and the connection's gone.
Two lines crossed and both are gone.

In your quiet eyes I see no boom;
your gaze is mellow.
It could come none-too-soon:

the raise of hackles, the static hair-do
and the Sun-burst's glare

of love, Gare, of love

coursing along your wires.


© Kåre Enga 2006 [162.695]