By chris
Date: 2008 Nov 04
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[[2008.11.04.12.06.21999]]

Women who sleep with their backs to me

stay unknown -
defiant, alone,
even after sex,
even with
my kisses on their necks, my promises
in their ears.

They keep their fears
apart from mine
like separate bank
accounts.

Women who sleep with their backs to me
stay unresolved,
unsolved
like a Rubik's Cube left
on a late family member's mahogany
coffee table
in 1982.