Clean Of You

Clean Of You
Going to bed clean
of you
for the first time in
a long time.

Learning the differ
ences between heart
and brain are more
than spatial and
function
al.

Heart arhythms
for your nakedness claw
ing its way up under
neath the bed
sheets and smother
ing mine the way it used
to.

Brain knows, “Good
for me. I’m bet
ter off alone.”
In every connotat
ion there could possibly
be.

Going to bed clean
of you
for the first time in
a long time.

Dreaming of sex, hold
ing your hand, and
every other bad thing
that I could ever
do.