I roll to your side warm yet in denial of morning’s insistence
By D10 months ago in Poets
my chest conducts heat along the length of your spine slow and trustworthy
sunlight coaxes you but I pull you into me in quiet protest
my body's your furnace coil your exothermic limbs and dissolve in me
the warmth of this house is not found in stoves or hearths but your loving hands
we merge our torsos become thermodynamics epidermal fire
let all our mornings begin with arithmetic as we become one
horizonless days the gleam in your eyes is my thermogenesis
the heat of our home starts with tiny shoes scattered across the mudroom
the scarf you knit me holds the shape of our last hug warmth that won't let go
whiskey solution fire held inside my ribcage dissolving her name
this winter demands no fire, only a solvent to burn her absence
