The Earth on its back
lay straddled
under a sky
 blue with eros,
nude
 but for a necklace
 of cloud,
on a bedframe
of unmade sheets,
 a room of windows,
 rooves without ceiling.

And their bodies
lay locked in a jigsaw
 of topography,
 sensuality,
upheavals of distance,
a precession
 towards the end
 of the world,
  the vastness.

October 13th, 2022