06:40 PM</b4

06:40 PM

making love in a thunderstorm
is like falling backwards
into hours unknown,
the swooshing sound of cars
sliding by through the water,
and the hard drops that drip
from your roof
onto a set of lawn chairs below,
and watch it
slip and stream
across your window panes
and soak quietly into the ground.
and your skin and his
skin
they melt together in the middle
and never before has
anything so soft and slow
been so completely
in our control.

and we can make it out of this-
but we have to go together.