Absence of Love

Dark wine reminds me of you The burgundies and cabarets The tang and thrum and hiss That spiral like Egyptian silk Nights that swell like cork This night, a thousand Under va single lamplight In public or alone Very late or very early When I write my poems Something of you still taut Still tugs still pulls A rope that trembled Hummed between us Hummed, love, didn't it Love, how it hummed