Shades of Love

I'd like to put this memory into words...

But it's faded now... almost nothing remains--
for it goes far back, to the first years of my youth.

Skin as though of jasmine...
That night in August--was it August?--
I can barely recall the eyes; blue I think they were...
Yes, blue; sapphire blue

Photograph: Rodrigo and Dante, New York, 2006