​The Fish Meets the Water Bearer

 
For Michel and Etienne
by any other Sun Sign, name or century
 
We searched for each other 
in de the most unlikely places 
among the most unlikely people 
 
and when our paths finally crossed 
it was for reasons so entangled 
in our daily bread 
and the usual trespasses 
 
that we might not even have noticed 
except fort hat faint quiver of wonder 
like a passing chill from the night air 
 
we loved 
 
and the closest we’ve become to explaining why 
is because it was you 
and because it was I

​Linda Goodman, 1970