Pahn has been wandering
wandering
with his Mexican friends
exploring their employer’s land
They have seen a truck
hauling a huge old
concrete
blast-furnace onto the property
from another location
It reminds Pahn
of a ruin
of a ruin
he
explored in the past
on another of the owner’s parcels
They go there now to explore it again
The
outside of the ruin
has been a
garden
for many years
and is now a
nursery where plants are reared
Pahn walks the
chalky gravel
enclosed
by the ruined walls
by himself
wondering how
the hydrangeas survive
in so much sun
with so little water
thinking of Aiks
because she
loves hydrangeas
he picks up a few
things to buy
and goes
inside
through an open entr y
into
a hallway now
with several doors
leading
to abandoned rooms—
some he has
explored before
others were
inaccessible
He wants to examine them all
First
he opens the
large double doors
at the end of the
hall
to his left They are heavy
and behind them
there is
a second set of heavy doors
that he opens as well
These open
into a restaurant
Now
he feels
exposed
He hears a bit of conversation
from some of the restaurant patrons—
a story about someone making
a joke
of Pahn’s employer’s name and they speak
with concern of how
he must endure such teasing
frequently
The patrons seem genuinely
sympathetic to him
but Pahn thinks
their sympathy is
excessive
for such a small thing
to such a rich man
Pahn feels rustic
and out of place among
the patrons
and begins to close the doors
again but
before he moves the doors
an inch
(of the starry face)
comes to a nearby table
and she seeing
Pahn approaches
takes his hand
takes his hand and
tells him
to ignore the doors
and leads him confidently
confidently past the patrons
informing him that she
has something for him to do
By the time she reaches the
reception desk
she has
changed
Her hair has darkened
and she has become
somewhat more compact
and voluptuous
rounder
Her shawl which had been
a light leaf
and floral of
earth tones
is now black and lacey
and somehow
there are gaps in her clothes
that open as she walks
exposing her hipbones
and inner
thighs
To Pahn these
clothes
seem like bedroom attire
but they are so loose
and flowing
he wonders how
one could frolic in bed without tearing
or getting tangled
He looks down at her lap
as they come to the desk
and she sits down
crossing her legs
He sees as if
in a close-up
that her dress has parted
showing her black lace underwear
and her partially exposed hips
He can see
that her thighs
are covered thickly
with wooly hair identical
to the hair on her head
whereas around and beneath
her panties
has clearly been shaved
Reading his mind she says
”I find
”I find
I can let the hair on my thighs grow
and men don’t seem to be bothered
but
I shave my pubis
so that it seems clean”
Pahn is nodding
as he leans over realizing now
that he himself
is completely naked with
his manhood resting
neatly
on the corner of the desk
neatly
resting
He says
“I like being hairy because it makes me feel like who I
am”
She nods
A series of thoughts
now come through
his head
‘maybe
men don’t mind
the hair on her thighs
because it seems like an extension
of the hair on her head’
and
‘I like the hair on her thighs
because I am half wild’
and
‘It may not be appropriate
for me to be naked here
I should probably go back
into the ruins’
And so he says to her
“I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to be naked
here
I should probably go back into the ruins”
She smiles kindly and unconcerned
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