SPEECHLESS AGAIN

Again you rendered 
me speechless. 
It was not the unmoored 
embrace of your legs. 
Not the vice of your gaze 
tightened around 
my ecstatic face. 
Not the split of my skull, 
opened to let flow 
your fierce river 
of melted snow. 
Not the dune curves 
of your relentless sand.

You muted me 
with your voice, 
clear as water 
over 6000 miles. 
I forget the words 
you spoke. 
I just remember 
the sound in my ear 
that for a moment 
made you real.
I mumbled something 
until the air deadened 
and we fell back exhausted
into the measureless 
silence of missing.



© 2004 by Richard W. Todd

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