: wood beam, supple
like spine. mornings
when your arm bears
on mine, your fingers
tracing ellipses between us,
pointing over
: our backs know
the faces of timber posts
made impressionable
by each other’s lean. press
of cheek by palm, folding
of elbows into unfilled divots
: between faces, fillets
softening with wear and time,
remembering the way
a building does. mortised gaps
track shoulders of tenons, floors
bear marks of cast-iron feet
: compressed, a post
bends. you bend, compressing
you pull on me, bending
about our axis. about
our centroidal axis. comfort
lies in knowing your grain
: outlet of breath
when you tend
beyond the heads
of windows
: a sill, your hands
reversed—