Squandrous

marked

making love
on the beams of the
Eiffel Tower

sixty feet in the air
on a warm September night

not only requires
confidence
fearlessness
an affinity for heights
a fine sense of balance
insanity

but also is
as we later learned
highly illegal

not sure
what gave us away

our awkward bodies
glistening
in the blue and white tower lights

or your skirt
draped
over the side
flapping in the wind —
proof that we were there
proof that we had conquered
our fears
the heights
and our hesitancy to reach out
and touch each other in the dark