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...