METAPHORS A SHADOW OF HIS FORMER SELF CAN ALMOST MAKE OUT THEIR FOOTPRINTS HEAR THEIR VOICES FADE SUNBRIGHT SMILE MY FOOTSTEPS ECHO PUSHING THE LIMITS OF MY ENERGY. HE STARED BACK AT ME UNREADABLE EYES HER HAPPY , OPEN FACE SUDDENLY DARKENED SUFFOCATING CROWDS EXPRESSIONLESS BLACK EYES SQUINTING IN THE GLARE OF THE SUN FLASHING A SMILE WITH TEARS STREAMING DOWN HIS CHEEKS LOW GRAVELLY VOICE HEAVY WITH PAIN VEILING THEIR HURT WITH GENTLE SMILES HARDLY A WORD WAS SPOKEN WIDE EYED IN WONDER LAUGHS COME EASY JEWELS FALL FROM YOUR MOUTH AS YOU SPEAK MY FOOTSTEPS ARE THE ONLY SOUND A SHRILL VOICE ROSE INTO THE SKY THE SMILE WAS FIRST BORN THE SMILE THAT FLICKERS ON BABIES LIPS SWEET SOFT FRESHNESS THAT HAS BLOOMED HALF CRYING - HALF LAUGHING WHEN I KISS YOU TO MAKE YOU SMILE MY HEART WAS OPENING ITS PETALS TENDER SOFTNESS CAUGHT MY EYE LET YOUR GENTLE EYES FALL UPON THEM STEALTHY SILENT STEPS WAITING WITH ANXIOUS EYES TORN GREEN SWEATER - FADED BLUE TROUSERS LOVERS WALKING HAND IN HAND LET IT SEEP INTO YOUR BONES BODY BENT WITH AGE DAZED BY SLEEPLESSNESS AND AWE A SMILE THAT OUTSHINES THE NOON DAY SUN SAG WITH AGE MUTED VOICES AND SOFT CHANTING LONG FACES A DARK, HEAVILY LINED FACE DARK LIQUID EYES HIS VOICE BOOMED WITH GOOD FELLOWSHIP WIND CHILLED BODY STIFLED TEARS UNDER THE THIN VEIL OF HIS DRY WRINKLED SKIN THE SMELL OF BAKING BREAD IN THE RAGS OF A SERVANT A TEAR BLOSSOMED IN MY EYE A GREAT ROUND BALDING HEAD WAVES OF RELIEF RIPPLE DOWN MY SPINE HIS BRIGHT UNBLINKING EYES SHADED BY A WIDE BAMBOO HAT WEARING ROLLED UP TROUSERS A ROUND FACED WHITE BEARDED TEXAN GLANCES OVER HIS SHOULDER AND GRINS TEARS WELLING IN HER EYES A SOLID SOBER THE GRACE OF A DANCER ROUGH EDGED BUSHMAN STARING FIERCELY INTO THE DISTANCE SQUARE JAWED SANDY HAIRED A STURDY GRAYING MAN WITH A SEA CAPTAINS TRIM BEARD SMILED BRIGHTLY A TALL ROUND FACED FELLOW HIS PENETRATING GAZE FLARING GRAY MUSTACHE A COMMANDING FIGURE AN INTENSE GAZE TEARS FILLED HER EYES EYES SPARKLING WITH THE MEMORY HIS FACE TIGHT WITH ANXIETY TWISTED IN KNOTS A SAD EYED SMILE RADIATING A SERENE DIGNITY I SAW THE DREAM REFLECTING IN HER EYES WALKING WITH THE FLUIDITY OF UNFURLING SILK THIN, COOL AND ELEGANT A HIGH VOLTAGE STARE A LIGHT OF RECOGNITION CREPT ACROSS HER FACE A WARM EASY GOING PEOPLE HIS FACE A SHADOW OF AGONY HIS DEEP SET EYES RIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH FIRE IN HIS EYES A SHIMMERING MOUNTAIN OF MUSCLE AND FLESH FROZEN FACE THE CRUNCH OF SAND UNDER BARE FEET A GLEAM OF TRIUMPH IN HIS EYE FRIENDLY WAVES AND WARM SMILES SCHOLARLY, SOFT SPOKEN, AND EMINENTLY POLITE WIND IN MY HAIR A SMALL AND SILENT MAN DEEPLY SORROWFUL LOOK HAIR BLOWING IN THE BREEZE DARK SKIN AGLOW IN THE SUNSET SWARMS OF PEOPLE A GENTLE, QUIET VOICED MAN KNOTS OF PEOPLE HIS VOICE SINKING TO A HUSKY WHISPER A SOLIDLY BUILT MAN HE LOOKED AT ME FOR A LONG MOMENT A TALL MAN WITH INTELLIGENT EYES STARING AT ME WITH LARGE LIQUID EYES A THOUSAND DIFFERENT SENSATIONS A TALL MAN WITH PALE SKIN AND GREEN EYES GIRL WITH COFFEE - TINTED SKIN ASH BLONDE HAIR and gray eyes HER VOICE ECHOES IN THE EMPTY CHURCH A TRIM, BEARDED, BLUE-JEANED SCIENTIST MUSCLE - STIFFENING HOURS HER LINED FACE SPOKE OF A HARD LIFE OF LABOR BONE - TIRED ADORNED IN SPLENDOR DEEP SET EYES SLENDOR WITH WAVY LIGHT BROWN HAIR BLACK HAIR - ARMS MUSCULAR FROM WORK QUIET EYES A CROOKED BOYISH GRIN QUICKENED THE PULSE BOUNDLESS VITALITY THE CHATTER OF WOMEN SWEATING IT OUT A 3 ASPIRIN HEADACHE A SANDY - HAIRED, ATHLETIC LOOKING MAN HER HUGE EYES STARED BACK INTO MINE A SMALL ROBUST MAN WITH BUZZ CUT GRAY HAIR A DARK HAIRED WOMEN IN HER EARLY 30S HIS DARK EYES WERE HEAVILY CIRCLED WITH BLACK HAIR AND GLOWING DARK EYES A THIN BALDING MAN WITH LARGE GLASSES A SLIM - MUSTACHED MAN A COPPER COLORED FACE HIGH CHEEK BONES AND A SCRAGGLY MUSTACHE A SHORT - STOCKY............. A SHORT AND WRINKLED MAN GAZED IN SILENCE LAUGH LINES ON AN AGING FACE CAP SHADED MISCHIEVOUS EYES A GRAY BEARD AND UNRULY HAIR GOLDEN VOICE RAVEN HAIRED WOMEN A SILVER HAIRED PROFESSOR RIVERS OF SOUND AND SMELL A WIRY , ENERGETIC MAN SHINING FACES GOOD CHEER LIGHTS HIS SUN-TANNED FACE HIS TALK IS SLOW AND QUIET THE LINES OF GRIEF ON HIS FACE CLEAR EYED WITH A HANDSOME SMILE STONY FACES A FRIENDLY WAVE A FLAME-RED BEARD THE SWIRLING CROWD BLEARY-EYED AND IRRITABLE LONG BROWN BEARD- HOLLOW CHEEKS BRILLIANT BLUE EYES POWERFULLY BUILT MAN IN HIS MID 40'S CLOSE-CROPPED BLACK HAIR DARK EYES AND PROMINENT BROW EVERY MUSCLE WAS BEGGING ME TO QUIT TALL WOMAN WITH LONG SILVER HAIR A WRINKLED SMILE A STRONG BODY AND RADIANT SMILE CELESTIAL SMILE HIS FACE WAS CLOUDED HE CAME OF AGE WITHOUT GETTING DIRT UNDER HIS NAILS PIERCING BLUE EYES A CRISP WHITE SHIRT A BARREL CHESTED MAN UNRULY GRAY HAIR SHORT, SLIM, AND DARK HOT - TIRED AND THIRSTY STEADY BLUE EYES STRONG CHIN HIS SAD EYES HUNGRY EYES A SMALL STURDY WOMEN A BROAD SMILE LIGHTING HIS FACE A GRIZZLED BEARD A BLUNT SQUARE FACE A SHORT STURDY MAN STIFF LEGS AND AN ACHING BACK SHINING EYES SMILED SADLY SERIOUS EYES CHEERFUL EXPRESSION A CRISP WHITE SHIRT PIERCING EYES SPARKLING BLUE-G REEN EYES THINNING SILVER HAIR A TRIANGULAR NOSE TUFTS OF GRAYING EYEBROWS CRISP BLUE SUIT SHAGGY GRAY SWEATER SILVER HAIRED DARK EYED MAN UNRULY WHITE HAIR LARGE SOULFUL EYES THIN WEATHERED FACE CAUTIOUS SMILES THE LIGHT IN THEIR EYES MY EYES GREW HEAVY WOBBLY LEGS HUGE DARK EYES HER FACE ERUPTED IN A LUMINOUS SMILE GRAY BRISTLE-BRUSH HAIR CURLY HAIRED BEARDED PROFFESSOR A SANDY WHITE BEARD A RUDDY COMPLEXION WEARY TO THE BONE A LEAN, HIGH ENERGY GUY A SHORT, WELL BUILT MAN RAVEN BLACK HAIR LUSTROUS BROWN EYES LEGENDARY BEAUTY A BURNING GAZE UNSETTLING WATCHFUL GAZE DARK SUSPICIOUS EYES WITH DISCERNING EYES IN A SOFT SLOW VOICE BLURRY OLD EYES A HEAVENLY GAZE A SKINNY DIGNIFIED OLD MAN BRILLIANT SMILE GLITTERING EYES FIRE IN HIS EYES A WIDE SMILE A STRANGE LIGHT IN HIS EYES THE AWE BEHIND THE SMILE A STRONG MAN WITH A QUICK SENSE OF HUMOR GROANING WITH EXHAUSTION A TINY SPARROW OF A WOMAN MY RAIN SOAKED SKIN A SHY WOMAN WITH FRIZZY BLOND HAIR QUICK MOVING EYES AND AN EASY SMILE HIS DARK BROWN EYES TWINKLED WITH RECOGNITION A SHARP CHIN AND A LEAN, WOBBLY NOSE DARK HAIRED AND SAD EYED A SMALL, WIRY, BROWN-HAIRED GAL STEEL NERVES BRIGHT BUT WARY EYES THEIR EYES BRIGHT WITH CURIOSITY EYES OF BURNISHED STEEL BLOND HAIR AND AN EAGER SMILE HE CLOSED HIS EYES, HIS MIND AND OUR CONVERSATION THE SMELL OF THINGS BOTH LIVING AND DEAD MIXES IN THE AIR A SLIGHT, COURTLY MAN, PAUSED AND GAZED AT ME WITH PENSIVE EYES HIS EYES SEEMED FIXED SOMEWHERE IN THE DISTANCE A BURLY MAN WITH A SALT AND PEPPER BEARD AND A DEEP TAN HE WAS BARE- CHESTED, GRAY BEARDED, AND SHOELESS ARMS FOLDED SQUARELY ACROSS HIS BARREL CHEST A TALL, MILD - MANNERED MAN WITH A SERIOUS DEMEANOR HIS HAIR AND BEARD A CURLY TEMPEST OF BLACK AND SILVER EYES WITHOUT SPEAKING CONFESS THE SECRETS OF THE HEART THE FIGHTER SMILED WEARILY STEELY EYES REFLECT UNFLINCHING COURAGE

SIMILES WE SHIVER LIKE BADLY TUNED DIESEL ENGINES A MOSES LIKE FIGURE WITH A SILVERED BEARD BUILT LIKE A TANK A SHARP LITTLE BEARD - THRUST FORWARD LIKE A DAGGER HOVERED AS A FRAGRANCE ABOUT ME STILL AS A STONE A SOUTH CAROLINES DRAWL AS THICK AS HONEY SKIN AS SMOOTH AS POLISHED MARBLE A FACE LIKE AN OPEN BOOK COSTUMES AS LOUD AS THEIR DRUMS WEBBED TOES LIKE SKIS FLAPPING WINGS LIKE AIR BRAKES