Inside, I obscure the providing glow -
Evening's assistant to the blinds.
Mute crystal light is fragile still.
The ambience sucks on solitude.
Word-processed lines, they underline
the absent quiet of empty spouse.
Pages fill, scroll on, tap on -
Brim over as digits pound.
Nervous hairs scrape back-to-back
as though their tinder tames wild beasts.
Amassing armies to neck's last stand
against the fear beyond that seen.
Turn slowly, let the neck-hairs rest.
She stands, awaits me once again.
In beauty, she blondly unresists -
Dark motes connect our colourless eyes.
Touch, and touch her hair again.
Drawn in, the Swish! beguiles.
A drool spot catches the monitor light.
Calmed, she is begone.
The words are waves smoothed to a still,
Through fingers' osmotic pressure, still -
The closing lines draw tired eyes.
A prickle states: Her sister's near.
A queen whose motley dark-hair claims
a contrast to those strawberry wiles.
Her nervous need betrays her youth -
Fresh strokes - My comfort's near.
Her heart pounds out the echoed door -
As keys clatter notice that my wife is home.
Our two queens greet her jealously -
Dependence purrs independently.
- Simon Huggins, 26th May 2002