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Our parts of which we speak...

I enjoy the way your verbs
  taste, stroke and titillate
  my hut of flesh and its resident soul.

I endure the way your adjectives
   desire to describe the details of beauty.
  Adjectives are paintings of dawn:
  they strike sulphur,
  but they do not emblazon my vision with brilliance.

I revere the nouns that name
  the person, place and thing that you are.
  Every appellation I use provides
  another reference to the benevolence of you.

I hate the pronouns assigned to design ourselves,
  for enwrapping yourself in pink
  won't disguise the cries of your mannish side
   and my anima is pregnant with a passion to reproduce.

I appreciate the conjunction that you have grown to be.
  You are the “And” that facilitates my spirit's state
  By using the adhesion of compassion.

I adore you for the prepositions that grant these facts:
  I am on a bed of beatitude with you.
  We do what we want for joy's geysers,
  experiencing satisfaction after the flow.

I titter at the interjections
we use as illustrations of our jubilation.
  The exclamations are sillier
  than children chortling on a carousel.

I assert adverbially,
  both you and I have become
  rather pledged to the notion
  of cherishing an emotion
  without using its word.
  Soundlessly appreciating that thoughtful space,
waiting for language to transport the topic,
our best sentiments on commitment are expressed.

                           Bob McNeil  2013