I thought I tasted
something unique in your mouth.
It was clean and simple and
you smiled as our mouths
went in and out
like the tide.
I had a night that turned to day,
light touching the bedspread through the narrow window
and crawling up to where our heads lay.
And after months
of eclipse
you struck suddenly like a match
flickering into being.
I held you for a night,
but a match smolders
till it touches your fingers,
and mine are singed.