THE BIG CHILL

You are the spark that ignited

the fuse for the Big Bang of my

hitherto relatively uneventful love life…

it flashing all incendiary! All Roman candles

and rockets! Molotov-cocktail love!

Flame-thrower love! Burning magnesium hot

and launching me in a straight trajectory

right over Lover’s Leap at E=mc2…

 

But that was in my callow youth…

Today, like the perpetual

Olympic flame, my love

for you still burns— 

patient now and serene…

electric-blanket warm…

cup-of-cocoa hot…

fireplace cozy...