2.11.16 We traverse them in our sleep

t all comes again and again
Paid,and paid well
The powdered sugar falls
from the donut replete with
lard , with brown-like-chocolate 
With an obdurate crisp crust

The day rises and falls
From dawn
From dreams spun awry
From the least thing you did
before you left this morning
whether or not you had
time to notice

Curled up against me, the warm of your thighs, your long soft arms about me and strong
Curled until the final squeeze
within the five-thirty break of day
My own smile holds you
for the duration

Sometimes I wondered what it would be like to grow older and turn to find I'd managed to pull it off somehow

The love and enduring
Wild wet sweat streaked nights
The mutterings of newborns
and oofs of propelled toddlers effacing the marital bed

The indigent growth of them all
while we each of us studied to navigate the awe and the changes

Until now, I hold it all within me
Now, the years
and your kind eyes
All your long silences until
I discovered my own making

The moves unrelenting
from one house to
another without end
Until my dear friend offered and
you agreed and we settled in
finally to our own home
Again and once again

Til we reworked the endless cotillions
of intent and injury
The ramshackle beauty that
emerged from you and me

Finally we look over no shoulders
We know the land and the currents
We traverse them in our sleep
Our love cathects all time