By the privy entries of the eare,

words sappe downe

into the heart, and,

with gunshotte of affection,

gaule the mind,

where reason and virtue

should rule the roste.

FIRST REPETITION

Immediately so

and so as palm to palm

do our kind contracts kiss.

Immediately to

intergraft in such soft contacts,

tact to tact

skinful of our fuss

of warm brushed haptic.

Immediately by

hap to hap contracted

to our eyes’ kiss.

Unmediate.

SECOND REPETITION

If I could lap myself

up tight so tight to

you, we (you and I)

could crush out and.

If I could lap us

tight so to we you I

would crush out

first person

personal.

If lap us

tight we

crush.

THIRD REPETITION

Need no postman for

each hap riposte; need

no interim parcel

force; need no parole patrol;

no punctuating drum;

nor nurse; nor Friar Peter;

need no re-prefix as we fine flex

ply taut cord petition, storing places

membering port to post

signed to it. Turn and turned again,

bound to the turn and turn.

Nobody interfering, over here.

FOURTH REPETITION
FIFTH REPETITION

To be sent back

I step back

make room back up

push space to stare

slot intervals interim

a mediating as we

throw out into a busy medium.

The bounce between us

links out lovely chain

causal interactions hot

on heels, lagging cause to

overlapped event, coat over coat

laid out and over. Without the

gap, perhaps we can’t

get intimate.

You snap distinct only

on the far side of

a mediating tumble.

FINAL REPETITION

And are the ethics of adoration that

I stand far back enough to stare?

Listening intently behind the closed door

to you to you as you.