Wooly Thighs
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
Aiks' Anger
…driving along a familiar moonlit
bay in the Hawaiian night
The water is wave-less
luminous
a dark pattern of shadowy
coral
beneath the surface
A tangle
of branches overreaches the road
and a web
of roots curls out from the edge
into the
water The
road
is
barely above the surface of the bay
Old
Mercedes waddles around the curves
its outer wheels slipping into water
Soon the makai
side is floating and
Aiks struggles
to bring it back onto the road…
…Pahn is swimming beneath the car
pushing up
against the
undercarriage
Looking up
he sees Aiks
peering back
at him
Pahn tries to
come up for air
but Aiks holds him under
smiling maliciously
A Spell
…with scissors
now
the thin
crazy woman
follows Pahn and Eeunks
downstairs
her straight
black
hair flailing her pale skin
as she slashes ineffectually about
Pahn keeps Eeunks behind him
as he faces the woman down
He sees her face soften as he meets her eyes
and her movement slows
he catches her right wrist first
and then her left
and shakes the weapons from her hands
He
is swelled
with
a sense of confidence
and victory
and with this comes
an
incipient lust
He notes to himself
that
if it were a man whom he had disarmed
he
would be thinking only of his own further safety
but
she is not a man and as her threat
subsides
his
desire surges
He
tells Eeunks to go upstairs
as if for her safety
and leads this dark-eyed woman to the
bedroom…
…Pahn
is lying down beside her half
asleep
She
is sitting up
She
lies back murmuring into the pillow
staring
at the ceiling
Pahn rises a little leans over and looks at
her face
Her
features are mild
her eyebrows thin and black
He
closes his eyes
nuzzles into her
shirt
and
finds bare skin
He
thinks it is the skin below her breast
Though
his eyes are closed
and
his face is against her flesh
he
can see her lying on the bed
He
can see
her
body change as he kisses her skin
the
way her lungs fill
in short subtle gasps and
deflate in sighs and
her arms melt away
at
her sides
her
thighs and stomach tighten
slightly
and at the same time
his
arms
are scooping under her back
and
his heart
is
filling like a lake in the rain
after a long drought
here
in half-light
in
half-sleep
then
Eeunks and Aiks come in the open door
to
ask him what they are to do—
Aiks
does not appear worried
Pahn
wonders even if the dark-eyed woman is Aiks in
another form
but Eeunks looks a little concerned—
Pahn
sends them away
but
he has been awakened now and the
desire
is broken
and
though he still has hopes
he doubts
that
the moment can be retrieved
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