194: I enjoy just looking at you/quietly from across the room...

I enjoy just looking at you

quietly from across the room

I think I could look at you for hours

you curled in a chair

           not sleeping

                       still listening to

the words pouring out

I want to figure out

what it is I want to tell you.

Maybe it’s the word for this connection

for which there is no word,

the word for the touching of spirits.

But whatever I want to tell you

has already gotten lost

in all these words that do not

            fit

There are some things

you can only say by

                      touch



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