An Interruption

…along a corridor of a ‘70s modern redwood building he

finds the room that was Ahnjehlia’s where

        he played with her fashion dolls

                                  here he encounters

a dark-skinned woman with short

buttony hair and she is thin

and sinewy though not hard with

                                                  smooth dry skin and

                                              she becomes naked lying

                                    down before him           with her legs      apart

and he lies on top of her

parting her lips with his fingers

and pressing into her  

                                     she feels dry

but he presses further and

puts his hand down to her vulva

                             again and finds

                                    she is wet to the touch

             moving his fingers around           to be sure she is slippery

he presses into her again and

she still feels dry but

                     he pushes in farther anyway

and she makes no indication

of discomfort

suddenly he is aware of the room

and the window      into the corridor

and Aiks outside        standing

and he panics      pulling

out of the woman     and stepping

outside to see

Aiks in front of his son/self as a child—

she is sulking angry but not speaking

of his infidelity and he knows

she will tolerate it and

            after a while be beyond it

but it is an interruption            that they will never get over