soft guilt
titillation
in a touch
feeling
unfamiliar
after all
this time

wide awake
& playing
pillow while
i earbud shuffle
skip songs
that don't fit
try not to
fidget under
a hot head
& heavy leg

a life attempt
to put all of me
into a little poetry

twilight air
vibrates under
pressure piled
thunderlofts
& sky high
mountainsides
with a shimmer
anticipation
of ripening rain

midnight meets
a dark anxious
downpour &
my life half un-
ravels into those

cracks of lightning
crashes of thunder

& a whole room
with its evening
associations in
millisecond eyeful

low rumbles of
chest-caught
thunder gather
behind me

precipitating