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CRAIG KIRSCHNER Breakfast and some news at the 'Twin Kiss' Diner The booth was claustrophobic. The sports section I held between us was like a volleyball net, your stares lofting over like shots of fresh egg I couldn't spike. When Alice came to take your order and you looked at each other for the first time the silence was as thick as the coffee. Twins – identical, if her hair had been curled and she'd had some cleavage. I can't remember who was first to speak, probably me, but then you ordered. One egg, one sausage – one carb. I felt I had to order two of something just on principle. You ripped my 'Post' to shreds and smashed my reading glasses before you stormed out of the diner. I wasn't sure if it was the five sugars I snuck in your coffee or my comment about your hang-ups being cultural, most likely it was my suggestion we get together with the waitress when she was done her shift. I stood four-eyed in front of the cash register as Alice gave me six quarters change for a dollar for a USA Today, winked, stuck out her studded tongue and walked back into the kitchen. Indians or rabbits Drenched from the surf on an unguarded beach we removed our jeans to a blanket between the dunes. The tips of the black waves sparkled like sequins and your dirty blonde curls took on a pink hue as the moon hung at the end of the silver path like a pendant and lit the cool night air with a diamond brilliance. I laid under you and rubbed my lips across your wrists as you asked me if I thought anyone had ever made love on this exact spot. This perfect spot where the soft moving mounds of warm sand met the damp hard sand of the beach. We squished that sand through our toes and I brushed it from your eyebrows. The salt in the air and the smell of your breasts as you pressed them to my lips all beckoned like the moon that the night be spent, caressed and I thought perhaps Indians or rabbits.
CARIG KIRCHNER's poetry appears in journals on and offline including Subterranean Quarterly, Erosha, Divine Animal, The Blotter, and Thunder Sandwich.
