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her legs
came up and
to the edge of the bed

where she said

placing her finger under her lip

and i

     watched an ancient string of lights
move time across the sheets
years old
that just last night

lit a vinyl window
and a hardwood hotel room
aglow

between neon
under sheets
of skin

we
us
iy
ou
me

became the ceiling so pretty
of an unred morning
in the hours after evening
that sleep on days

we traced and retraced the lines
with our fingers
and our tongues
numbering the pages

which you called dusk
and i called dawn

.silhouettes

and then the words
  hush
and the
  holy spirit
came climbing

high & heard

      out
    of
you
    or
      me

it was hard to say
(i was barely there)

but
there us was and
we
gently streamed