reflected lamp light
playing gently, dancing
the slightest movement
that smile, sustaining
more than a year now

she will call soon enough
a break, the weekday toil
our connection deepens
in spite/because of
expanding intertwined lives

i begin with freedom
privilege/blessed, i choose
periodic elimination
essential, irrelevant past
momentum of our moment

we make our own
everything, sculpted roses
bubbled up and naked
accounting, love’s leverage
all and all will ever need

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My Sweetheart knows now 5:53 am

Blessed…

m(___)m