Henry M. Christman

“Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.”

“Seeing that a simple pressure of the handCan make the symbol of my senses stand,What if I saw your body, where uniteThe lure of water and the gold of light.”

“As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...And I was too polite to disobey.”

“Of a slim-waisted deer-swift boy... My tongue remembers and is young.”