Orientation

“Unmade Bed’
Painting by David Slonim
From davidslonim.com

love shares air as it sleeps
tender molecules float
in contented exchange
of sweet breaths between
face-to-face pillows

hearts and lungs correspond
compatible stirrings
invisibly synchronous
rise fall and rest
upon promises kept

through vicissitudes
storms and serenities
blended annealed by
commitment all the
psychical power of two

but some sleep faced outward
breathing their separate
perimeters curled in their
personal umbrae such couples
will never know time