The Solace of Chocolate

Wan light remains
to banish shadows that prohibit calm,
nocturnal reminders of long past slumbers,
when sleep came gently --
an after-drifting into security --
energies sapped in explorations
of entwined bodies
on cooling summer sheets.

Night cries out --
demands quenching.
Wearied by labor to ignore
imperatives of the body,
chilled confections lay on the tongue,
warm to passion long denied,
dissolve, fill
caress -- a surrogate lover of the dark --
comfort the aloneness of July nights.

Shadow Woman
Pretend Once More
They Never Brought Flowers
Morning Desire
Dearheart, Have You Ever Understood?
Hold Me With Your Voice
The Solace of Chocolate
When the Immune System Refuses to Work
Candles Shimmered in the Darkened Room
Lillith Poems
You Have to Kiss A Lot of Frogs
Renewal

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