… frémissement un coeur, qu'on afflige…

Time
Distance
The remarkable capacity of the human mind to eradicate
what is most dear
will never separate us.

You cup my chin.
My left hand bends softly around your exquisite neck
as it has done

Since that very first time…

Fingertips dig deep into your hollows of response
Caressing without mercy
The fibers of my whirlwind wand lay firmly on
your belly.
Tense, taut, quiverring in expectation
The aching gyre
Your liquid sonorous sobs
We are one again.
We begin.

Tear, tug, jerk,
whimper

scordatura
arco, arco, détaché, collé

portato, tenuto,

legatissimo,
legatissimo

legatissimo

The moans of Saint-Saëns shatter
the darkened linden trees
at the feet of entombed lovers
undulating in their shrouds…
screaming
at the voracious insatiability
of renewal
of our union.

Laughing
at the helpless penetration of my
peau de chagrin.

And,
as ever
whenever

I lie you down.

‘like a monstrance
(Mon ostensoir)

your memory
(Ton souvenir)

steeps a muted body
sheaths its mottled soul.