Entreaty

--- "Because skin is soft, and a comfort
As the sheets are drawn up
When the mattress warms
From the heat of two bodies, and the cool
Blows in from the window like a kiss,
Like eyelashes brushing the hands.

Because skin is hot, it suffers and surrounds, it opens
And embraces, and it rubs. My love,"
Eyes dart among the gaps that call, the halls
That spread out, though, unlike the darkness, do not touch
The murmur of the stars. -- "She is gone, she does not hear
Or see, she does not feel, never will a heart
Stammer at the impulse of her eyes, lips will not
Describe what they remember, hands
Will not grab hands, teeth
Cannot graze tongue." (She's come undone.)