Jungle Room

you’re my quintessential 
midnight, catching traces 
of you across the duvet 
in the jungle room 

cross-bred with speckled 
remnants of your mothers’ 
perfume - or is it a candle? 

you’re my ushering  
silhouette. I hunt the shape 
of you in all my spaces - absolute 
or so poetically divulged, 
the imaginary portion 
slips away. I saw you 

become my favorite Sunday 
afternoon, blasting Moderat 
while you traced well-formed 
fingertips across my vision,
and I can feel no other
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