Love in the Dark
I feel the pressing in, the steeping
Of the morning dark’s keeping
Like the density of Love
Intensifies, wrapping me with fur
& breath of puppy, peeping
Between my feet, four new paws
Just the two of us here
in the early dark, creeping
At the door, pulling open to let it all in
The morning dark folding over us
Like a blanket of gratitude
For restorative sleeping,
the morning dark deepening in us
Like a quickening, kicking within
For the awakening, sweeping
of new Love in the dark
Reminding me of my newborn time
With the teen inside, still sleeping
Just the two of us then
in the midnight nursing, primal feeding,
Love in the dark, weeping
The daughter who would stay alive
Her breath keeping…
She’s taller than me now
Last night in the dark,
car keys in HER hands, dangling
She initiated the embrace
Taking up the keeping of me
knowing the leaving—
the unspoken tsunami now sweeping
Across our ocean on slow roll
towards graduation,
towards the great leaping
The density of Love intensifies
Wrapping me with long hair &
smell of teen skin, with her leaning
I feel the pressing in, the steeping
Love in the Dark
