Rooms

.
these rooms, familiar as breath
or the feel of shirt against skin—
what would these rooms be like
if they were empty of you?

—like having nothing
to tie to in the morning,
nothing of which to make fast

at dinner last night
we laughed and laughed

it’s not always like this;
you and I, being two,
as well as lovers, are not
always synchronous

but these rooms would know
you were not here

these rooms too
would know

Jim Culleny
3/19/19