She tells me there are no promises,
no fairy tales, no happy endings...

"I believe that you believe. It's the same to...
I gazed at her as she sat on the edge of the bed...

"No! Tell me why you love this dream. I need...
I shook her. Her tiny lumps flopped and her head...

I grabbed her by one of her slender shoulders and...

My fingers touched her warm shoulders, and I...

"It's all that. But it's more.
We're colder than you are...

I gazed down at her. She was perfect in her tender...
I reached down and pulled off the wig. Her head...

For the moment I am satisfied to feast on her only...
But I must warn you, some of it will sound...

My love, where are you now? Have you found rest...
Why did you have to spend that day away from me...

AS I ponder'd in silence,
Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering...