Memorized every phone number you have had since you were seventeen and at this point There is no other girl who can brag about how tranquil you sleep how you are a mountain mistaken for a fat baby full on warm milk bottle fed before bed I have watched you melt into stacked pillows seen [...]
praise the miracle body: the odd and undeniable mechanics of hand, hundred-boned foot, perfect stretch of tendon praise the veins that river these wrists praise the prolapsed valve in a heart praise the scars marking a gall bladder absent praise the rasp and rattle of functioning lungs praise the pre-arthritic ache of elbows and ankles [...]
What it takes on this planet, to make love to each other in peace. Everyone pries under your sheets, everyone interferes with your loving. They say terrible things about a man and a woman, who after much milling about, all sorts of compunctions, do something unique, they both lie with each other in one bed. [...]
