Stephen Koritta - Storm Before the Calm

Scouting out the limits
Of the sixty ticking minutes we call ours
Hours of conversation on a common theme
The leaves that we've been reading are still steeping in the steam
If Forever is a fever that can break a make-believer
Our temperatures attest
We have breathed each other's breath

The tongues, we held as prisoners
Slack for lack of listeners to find
Two pairs of ears appeared, two wary airways cleared
Then the crawl became a walk
Then the bawl turned into talk
As the earth turns somersaults
From the quake of all my faults
I am warm within in her palm
In the storm before the calm

At center of the interim
This tentative continuum in time
The hurricanes make eyes at me. She looks up unsurprisedly
I cede my higher ground. Again, the wind is dying down
The clouds all have their clout
But she knows what they're about
They will blow and they will pass
Love is slow when friends are fast

Lovers overwintering
Snowy angles lying wing-to-wing
Backs against the ground, glances heaven-bound
From the stacks of exhalations, one track with many stations
As the earth turns somersaults
From the quake of all my faults
I am warm within in her palm
In the storm before the calm

Written by:
Stephen Koritta

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