White Crane Journal #58: Attraction
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Attraction White Crane Journal #58 Fall 2003
Editor's Note: The Most Common Reminder by Toby Johnson
features
Two of Cups by Stevee Postman and Eric Ganther
Gay Intuition by Toby Johnson
We Recognize Each Other by Dr. Li
The Magick of Soul Mates by Christopher Penczak
Orgasm Everlasting by Daniel Helminiak
Through a Steam Room, Darkly: Sexuality, Cruising and Intimacy by Stephen Mo Hanan
Short Fiction: Fairy Tale by Martin K. Smith
Attraction to Gay Spirit Community by Patrick McNamara
Loving a Woman: Thoughts on Gaity From a Jungian Perspective by Alexandre Beliaev
Jacob's Thighs by Tucker Liebermann
Love Never Destroys by Ko Imani
Carrot Before the Horse by Jonathan Mack
Do Gay Men Have to be Promiscuous by Bill Weintraub
departments
Editor's Note
Toby Johnson
UPDRAFTS
BODHISATTVA WATCH CS Lewis & the Great Dance Toby Johnson
reviews
Crossing Over & Coming Home by Liz Dale
reviewed by Toby Johnson
Dining at the Lineman's Shack by John Weston
reviewed by Steve LaVigne
Damages by Bazhe reviewed by Steve LaVigne
Sex and Heaven: Catholics in Bed and Prayer by John Portmann reviewed by R.A. Horne
The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
reviewed by Bruce Grether
Gay Witchcraft: Empowering the Tribe by Christopher Penczak
reviewed by Bob Barzan
Open Your Mind, Open Your Life by Taro Gold reviewed by Toby Johnson
Shirt of Flame: The Secret Gay Art of War by Ko Imani
reviewed by Toby Johnson
Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe by Toby Johnson
reviewed by Jesse Monteagudo
The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament by Theodore Jennings
reviewed by R.A. Horne
poetry
ATTRACTION
Habeeair
"My skin wants your skin
next to me.""Attraction!"
Just the word
catches my attention,
softens my heart,
opens my skin.
It is a magnetism.I want to close my eyes and fly,
and be pulled into your being!
to seek your scent, your hands, your skin, the feeling of becoming,
being a soul dancing
out of time and space,
while still being here, there:
Two and at the same time
One.What makes me follow
with my sight those steps
of the one that suddenly got to me?
His eyes? His look? His hair? His smile?Where does it come from
the strength of the mountains
that, with its great magnetism,
makes me climb on to the top?
While on the way I revel among the trees, the grass, the blossoms,
the songs of the birds.
And on the mountain
there alone
I commune
and breathe
and I feel One
with the moment
with the eternal sacred place
as in orgasmic pleasure?What makes me admire
the defined muscles of the fellow
climber, or the hiker hiking shirtless,
the swimmer, the surfer,
anyone, everyone?And why am I aroused in spirit
just looking at a kiss?
A kiss! Oh consummation
of the attracted men!Why does my heart leap
when I see those lips,
or those white teeth
shining in a smile that calls me
come and savor, come to my heart . . . ?Why do I stiffen
calling for my hands,
your hands,
their hands?Why do I boil,
and thirst
when I feel this body of mine
that has been made to be with . . .
to be with Nature . . .
to be with friend . . .
to be with me?"Oh soul that calls for my body
Oh body that calls for my soul!"
Where does it come from
this magnetism
that gives me such joy?My heart beats faster,
my blood surges.And where does it come from
this magnetism
that makes me long
to merge my soul
intimately
with a different me,
that wants to be
the same with you,
together in sharing intimate?Is it the power of the stars
where we come from
that wants to join back again
after that ancient, grand explosion that tore it all apart but in the process
created all this beauty that's around us,
that's the beauty that is you and me?"It is the stars.
We are continuing their inscrutable way
of explosion and implosion
within us . . .
sometimes in the mind,
or the skin, or the lips, or the eyes,
or the deep places of the body,
soul, and heart . . .For when I am attracted
to that man who fascinates me so,
I feel then that need for rejoining,
and that need makes my
soul, body, heart expand
and strive to return to be starlight
once again.Habeeair is a devoted member of the Mindful Masturbation for Men group on Yahoo.com
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