i want to cry out loud
i want to make everything hear me
i want to write your name a thousand times between
my hands my
heart my
breath my
legs
i feel you so clear
every time i
look at you i
believe in God a little more
and i hold
to the past a little more loosely
and i let
time run
and i’m feeling
so much i’m almost
numb with it
and your mouth so warm opens
and you say things i had forgotten how to hear
as if you read my heart in a single page
and are quoting it back to me
gently a line at a time,by two words by nine,
in a language only the deeper- than- flesh understands
and i keep kissing your mouth
because i know no other way to reply
because this is how i cry back,
i can hear you too.

to CDL with love on 8/4/99

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