Finally I saw your wrists only
turned three ways, your knees
went only up and down, I was
tangled with you, always tangled. It took
me so long to know where you ended, I’d been
so thrilled you moved at all. But there was only
one way when you were up against me, and after it
was so hard to hold your hand. By this time strings
were wrapped around my fingers, cutting off
circulation at the tips. Say you love me you said and I heard
the hinges on your jaw creak. I saw now that
had always been the way you talked, I’d just
read movement onto the carvings of your lips. Say
you love me and something jerked
upward at the base of my neck.