foto: by Frederic KARIKESE Hiding Place ___________________________________ it was in our hiding place you opened the purple box of your childhood with rainbows arching over fresh grassland and creeks from which we both drank and fearlessly swam in the cool water of a bottomless night a pair of fish-like souls hugging tight in each other's shadow while hiding we traveled together through a city underneath the earth following the sounds of childhood friends their laughter was a flock of migrating geese we flew with them grew as the flight grew longer we had all season we wished for fire burning low behind your eyes lights out i saved you from an unloved flower & undressed you together we composed the first poem in our hiding place ---jan. '05