After only after 
what I’d thought 
was meant to 
comfort actually suffocated 
and like the
pillow finally lifted 
letting me breathe 
I see now 
breathe now the 
air that so
long was missing 
filling my lungs 

This before then
now not later
I have before 
all else stirs
and the water
of day murkies
with the cacophony 
of trite banter 
here now at
low tides edge 
I see the 
shells and glass
and creepy crawly
little crabs of
my dreams seeking 
the needed night 

At last 
long last
I swim
in a
pond of 
my own 
of clear
water and 
smooth stones 
of glimmer
and calm 
and I
a fish
finding life 
after stream 
rapid river 
and ocean 

Together isn’t 
about what 
together is
about who
and not
what the 
two who’s 
do together 
but who 
the two 
that do 
together are 

Titles labels
and things 
we are
little lights 
quiet familiarity 
known to 
having been 
once before 
stamp and 
postmark telling 
all that 
we’ve been 
once there