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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
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