Sunday Morning
By Alexandria Kirkwood Enosh
It’s interesting
to look over at you
and see you sleeping
dreaming
living a whole other life in your head
next to me.
I lean over and kiss you gently
quietly, and
surprisingly
you delight me by smiling, although you continue
to keep your eyes closed.
And then you whisper “hi” and I smile
while
saying “hi” back, and rest my chin on your shoulder
and kiss your neck, and intertwine our fingers.
I watch the sunrise in your eyes as they slowly open
dancing and glistening, full of life and love, to meet mine.
And we love to lie this way,
me, caressing and tracing and loving every inch
and you, well, just being you.
Alex Kirkwood Enosh is a graduate of the Vet Tech program at SUNY Canton. Alex participated in SPECTRUM whilst a student in 2013-2015 and considers it an honor to have served as Interim President of the club for six months during that time. She now lives with her wife and a zoo of animals in Troy, NY. Alex would like to thank Marianne DiMarco-Temkin and Dr. Melissa Lee for bolstering her self-confidence and letting her know that she is allowed to belong and be her full, unapologetic self.