Naked night at the ranch

We went, Alexis and me,

to a party with our friends who know who they are.

Armed in advance, and warned about it,

we danced edge ward in a world without rules.

Bound with smiles and greeted naked by our host,

bodies were there in conversations.

Tepid words, uttered from me, covered my past,

floating in unison "ah, the patio".

Drinking gin, looking at women who looked back,

not afraid of who they are, talking free,

all listened to the outsider.

Smiles and laughter reflected them.

I lost my train of thought during "exercises",

a naked woman doing leg lifts.

Between lines, things were said I missed.

She asked later if I heard.

I told her a joke, and in a laugh from inside

she asked me with her eyes

"didn't you know this was here?".

The thought still spins in my mind -

no bounds or limits to us,

the each is the all,

justification comes with flexibility?