friends survive These Times together. Why leave one another to perish alone, when a trio can linger, share a grin? Toast to shared burdens, Raise pinkies, Hunkey-Dory— in the thick of the dire. These Times, they’re too rough to frown for so long.
firstFriendsNYC2021DSF8421
![A crisp camel-coat<br />
& Tic-tak-toe paints in plaid<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Telling it like it is,<br />
they take no trouble, baby,<br />
—and you better remember it.<br />
<br />
Staring off into <br />
tree tops,<br />
[They share a private laugh]<br />
<br />
lean in close,<br />
to feel the joke.<br />
<br />
Like Oil and Vinegar,<br />
though quite different in profile;<br />
<br />
Go together—<br />
Dress the best.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Three-Friends-and-a-Camera/i-p8tR6CD/0/bedbd784/Ti/first%203%20Friends%20NYC%204%20%202021%20_DSF8424%201-Ti.jpg)
![Lost <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
in your looking-glass-windows, <br />
<br />
edges melt into themselves. <br />
<br />
<br />
Boundary lines fade, <br />
as an Iris becomes the sky<br />
tree bark,<br />
<br />
solid ground. <br />
<br />
You are the Earth I walk upon,<br />
my sense of Self. <br />
<br />
What is a chin,<br />
If not yours?<br />
<br />
My smile, too; <br />
[inextricable.] <br />
Yours.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Three-Friends-and-a-Camera/i-ZQg9F7K/0/3be748b2/Ti/first%203%20Friends%20NYC%204%20%202021%20_DSF8425%201-Ti.jpg)
![Head, <br />
shoulders.<br />
<br />
<br />
Knees and toes?<br />
Knees and toes?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
With feet firmly planted,<br />
isolating <br />
ischium;<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a mind is<br />
left [only] to imagine<br />
the moves <br />
those legs<br />
can do!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Three-Friends-and-a-Camera/i-WrN2rMD/0/1d5283e0/Ti/3%20friends%20NYC%204%20%202021%20_DSF8521-Ti.jpg)
