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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
Karen I am walking through wet, shifting grass but can not keep my balance. The air is damp and brisk. An event has been scheduled in the park. Paul comes to me, jovial, with a pair of shoes. I put them on and find that I can walk again. It is mid-afternoon, and we are "rafting" up a river through the forest, except that the "raft" I am lying on is actually her body. I feel her rippling beneath me, and she is supple and strong. I feel the mountain wind whipping in my hair. I should be terrified of drowning, but I am with her, and I am not afraid. I wonder' how could we be doing this without any equipment? And both of us aren't wearing anything? We talk for several hours, laughing, sliding over boulders in the stream. It is now late afternoon, and time to start back; but we must switch positions to raft the other way. I am afraid of drowning but she says I will not sink She sits astride me and I float. Her weight on me is full and reassuring, and I am not afraid. We begin to glide down-stream and ground upon a rock. (well, it was my fault ... ...) After a good deal of gasping and laughing, of shoving and pushing, I get us off the rock and we are on our way again. I swish my arms above my head, picking up more speed, ... swish, ... swish ... I feel the water, cold, invigorating, sliding underneath me, I feel the bracing mountain wind, whipping in my hair. Swish, ... Swish ... we are moving faster, ever faster, now, the wind whirling to a gale. ... swish, ... Swish ... her lush and ample body in synchrony with mine. Soon we are coasting at impossible speed. and in our ecstasy seem about to loose control. Then, as if nothing at all were happening we start talking about whether the Park Service charges a fee for rafting --or whether rafting is really free? Our group did get some instruction that first time, so there must have been a fee, or something ... The scene dissolves. I am alone. SC |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
and in our ecstasy seem about to loose control. Then, as if nothing at all were happening ~*~ Keep writing like this, Jaime, and you won't be lacking for readers! I enjoyed it all... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
one of your best, amigo sensuous floating and rafting imagery splish splash! ooh la la! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
bumping this one upstream |
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