Encounter With Naaman 1962 Poem by Terry Collett

Naaman saw
Shoshana
by the gates

of the school
other girls
were nearby

she looked shy
standing there
he asked her

how she was
she replied
that she slept

very bad
did you dream
about me?

he asked her
might have done
she replied

in soft voice
they walked on
a little way

I see you
around me
when at home

she told him
all the time?
he asked her

when you are
undressing?
she smiled at

him shyly
not always
just sometimes

do you think
about me?
she asked him

now and then
but mostly
when I see

the beauty
of a Red
Admiral

butterfly
he told her
she felt shy

of him there
thinking of
what she thought

about him
and of her
doing things

like she read
in that book
a friend lent

(which she hid)
the bell rang
in the school

best go now
she told him
got science

first lesson
and she went
he watched her

and the sway
of her hips
as she walked

Rennie came
and they talked.