the material reality of trust
opens the window to the cool air
fondling the desiring body that warms it
albeit slightly
still the light touch of air and skin
attunes this moment
the instrumental sentient self
and the uncannily eternal uniquely universal contingent other
with the sparrows’ cheeps
the cars’ discontinuous rushes
the rises and lulls of weeping
the drips off leaves of remembered rain
the calls of the mourning dove
recalling the silences of the nights’ caresses
the moans of lust lost in the abysses of emptinesses
the falls and crescendoes of all doing undoing all
the endless humming of the pointlessly running air conditioner
the continuous filling stilling unfilling of breathing and thinking
the continual sinking of wakeful actuality in dreams and insensibility
the blinking in and out of space and time
the talk of the men walking to work
the rasp of the window scoring the frame
gaping to
the hiss of the asp
and the mother’s first morning kiss
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