Remember

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Remember when
we laughed
in waves
that started
with our toes
and scrambled higher
to our bellies
and still rose
to suffuse breath and bone
with love’s pure light?

We only stopped
the laughter
to fight the perils
of the night.

Thank you for reading! My debut poetry collection, The Weight of Need: Poems on Life, Longing, and Love, is available on Amazon.