I WAKE AT DAWN AND FIND YOU EVERYWHERE

Your hands smeared the paint 
of this sunrise. The heat 
of your body glowed 
in the coals of the stove. 
It was the dusty taste 
of you on my tongue, 
from coffee the color 
of your skin. You washed 
over me in the steam 
of the shower, your fingers 
in the brush taming 
the wildness of my hair. 

I find you everywhere, 
so close I cannot touch 
you, but must breathe 
you,  drink you, absorb 
you, sense you in the memory 
of cells. The shimmer 
around me is the energy 
of a great rising, a wheel 
of plasma, the trembling needles 
of magnetism, the aching distance 
of stars we call love
and its inexplicable gravity.



© 2003 by Richard W. Todd

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