Monday, March 21, 2011

Body and Soul at 4 a.m. (poem)

Body and Soul at 4 a.m.

in bed beside me
a guttural staccato
heavy breathing
a symphony of sleep

and then a change
softer and melodic
almost like longing
almost like desire

somehow my wife
regresses to find
her voice as a
teenage girl

--Charles Deemer

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