Holding hands while riding bikes through rain:
(Bien tomados de la mano!)
Two raisons for riding bikes….

In Antwerp, Belgum
While riding bikes next to one another
We hold hands
To steady us
Through today’s
Rain. And
Not just lovers
Do so. But old and young
Friends, and even strangers
Hold hands while riding their bikes
Two by two
Into and through
We lose ourselves in
Today’s rains.

One would never see this
In America, where we ride alone
And pick the toughest terrain
To climb. We wind our way alone-
Getting their first, before the others-
Up the sheer misted twisted mountains
And when we get to the top
It is raining, and we
Are all alone
Having won.