Talking in Your Sleep
We meet in sleep's womb,
Swim into our souls' sanctuary,
Our breathing circulating our dreams' blood,
Through our cells, into our slumbering tongues,
Where our love's vocabulary
Accumulates the passion and tenderness
We'll speak to each other, when we awaken.
A mumbled word or garbled phrase
Occasionally escapes, on a fugitive exhalation;
Rarely, a coherent, unadorned sentence
Makes its way to freedom,
Such as the one you whispered late last night,
When sleep spoke you, most intimately:
"I love you, very much."
02/05/12 - (1)
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