We laughed and peeled the cast into the sink.
I kissed the length of your arm when you asked me to,
yellowed like paper,
slack like a rope in my hands.
The sight touches us the same way and our responses harmonize.
I will never have to learn to laugh again.
Annalisa,
every choice that you make in our service,
all the words that I mean in your language,
nothing divides us that can’t be unlearned.
Blindsided by the forms,
I rub your back through your coat
as the space heater hums.
Something steals the weight from beneath you
the night before we leave.
Ginger to settle,
ginseng to balance.
Strength in rest,
and the rest is unknown.
We trade the greatest word that we share back and forth:
Ahavah,
Ahavah,
Ahavah.
In pace with her teachings,
the same taste on all tongues.
Love will embolden and find everyone.
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