accept what
is offered,
you receive energy.
It's a balance,
switching on and
off. Your muscles:
think bundling in
old New England-
two bodies pressed
as close as is safe
of course with a
board you could not
do much. Maybe
lips, a tongue. Her
body his Louisiana,
and Georgia, his
body her Florida.
Clothes brush each
other, clothes
the friction of silk
on suede, of the soles
on wood floors,
that hover zone,
space between breaths
so you never think
all your life is
yesterday keeping
you in the past
