each/other
each senses other by fingers soft as shadow,
how other lies and other breathes,
and how the pair walk in and out
of each other’s dreams, always subliminally
tuning themselves to the secret between them,
folded away, dreaming rhododendron head.
other wakes and sees moons fall while each dreams
of empyrean spheres ascending in order
above the unturning point of their marriage bed.
so they remain all night, folded close as petals,
a circuit of limbs whose current is touch.
if ever it breaks, it seems instantly rejoined
as if their cores were two halves of a water clock
which fills with its own emptiness until it compels
each to fall towards other again.
