A whisper. A squeeze. A trembling.

Panting.
Sighing.
Ankle angled over a thigh.
You blush.
A rush.
Lips spread like wings of a pigeon.
Skin harvested.
No vested interest.
Fields plowed.
A partly cloudy afternoon.
A disrobing.
An uneasy feeling.
Heat.
Beads of sweat on your forehead.
A perfect curvature.
Voluptuous wall.
A matchstick’s red head rubbed on flint.
An intent look.
Unattached.
A nose entrenched under a chin.
Lotion applied to a calf.
A calf slaughtered for the feast.
A secret in a fleshy fold.
A promise unattached.
A wrist rotated counterclockwise.
Quivering.
A trinket falls to the fall.
Two bells conjugated like a verb.
Your mercurial poise.
A feline pose.
Lock and key joined.
A door opened twice.
An oasis.
Water lapped by a dog’s tongue.
A silent rhythm.
A heartbeat out of synch.
An eyelash pressed on a wax sculpture.
A finger skating across your forehead.
Four legs woven into a wicker basket.
Sliding.
Ungraceful pirouettes.
Buttons sewn onto a turquoise vest.
A clipped nail in a wastebasket.


Concurrent currents of parallel streams.
A distant pulse.
Subliminal sucking.
Breathe from a laugh, resurrected.
Your cheeks, pillows.
A sliding door.
A well-oiled machine.
Fumbling.
Tugging.
Rubbing.
Grasping.
A cupped hand used as a safety net.
A whisper.
A squeeze.
A trembling.
A treble clef.
A cleft heart, unattached.
A car double-parked.
A mountain interrupted by a valley.
An imperfect circle.
Attached.
Unattached.
Attached.
Unattached.
An attaché case of unopened letters.
A symphonic moaning.
A phone disconnected.
Flexion.
Tension.
Extension.
Torque.
A thunder.
A clenched fist.
A bit lip.
Candle wax on a dead victrola.
A flood.
A flushing.
A draught.
An opening.
A closing unrelated.
Cracked eggs on a kitchen floor.
Watering an anonymous lawn.
The heavens having a seizure.
An exploration.
A departure.
A breath.
The singed cuff of a smoking jacket.
Two car radios playing the same station.
A refraction.
An unfurling.
An unmasking.
A question left unasked.
A contraction.
A contradiction.
A cleansing.
An unveiling.
A becoming.
A breath, unattached.
A death, unattached.
A slumped body.
Thumbprints on a pelvis.
A bent knee.
A shuttle launch.
An undoing.
A whisper.
A promise, unattached.
Slight pressure.
A bosom, unattached.
A foreskin, unattached.
A grape squeezed.
The skin of an orange peeled.
A puddle in the driveway.
Unattached.
A fugue hummed.
Withering.
Unattached.
A deep sleep.
Unattached.
A reconstruction.
Butterflies.
Pins and needles.
A cool sweat,
Unattached.
The last minute of a day.
Unattached.

An oil painting in the den,
Waiting to be hung.