I miss the stark moonlight that danced across my sheets Reminding me of your fingertips bare strips of flickering silver light illuminating my hallucinations of your face in my dreams. I recall wood smoke drifting through the evergreens as you laugh at my meandering soul my searching hands my wandering feet. And I wonder, not for the last time If the stiff conconctions my late night brain produced could really substitute for a real life you. flesh blood* bone Something my empty hands could Hold on to.