fiction 

the depths

        

in closeness you become 

more my self

than my self has ever been

 

the mystery of the space in you

unfolds itself in fragile gestures

that unravel my heart

to its most secret edges

 

in time i feel

as your heart more 

than my heart has ever felt

 

You a place that must hold

such impossible wonders that

 

in nearness

my heart’s edges burst, 

as levees;

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i     can    not

i can not hold,

as atmospheres, 

pure feeling

 

from such impossible depths

as the depth behind your eyes