Muted afternoon sunlight
Filtered through weathered blinds
In our honeymoon room.
Separated Corrugated umbrage Falling across white sheets
Contoured by your form underneath Brings everything and nothing:
In the beginning all the hopes and
dreams of a lifetime —
In the end are fettered by funds,
friends, forms, children….
Lying on your back, belly exposed,
You are so vulnerable,
Your dreams shining brighter than
your pearly whites,
Not brushed away by your impeccable
dental hygiene…
i never knew the lilt of your faint West
Virginia accent
Until you used it to compliment Aunt
Peg,
I glanced at you speaking,
Then drank you in longingly.
I was a name and address
And You were a large place in the
Valley….