drop hints

in unspectacular fashion.

 

get aroused without prompting

 

feel a churning immediacy

like hot magma just before

it bursts through the surface.

 

sit on a pillow

and will surrender,

acceptance of all that has been given

by the invisible giver.

 

suddenly cry,

not for anything specific

no one friend who died

no calamity in Eastern Africa.

 

take a photograph

of something that vaguely resembles

what is going on

inside.

 

reach out

to a complete stranger.

 

give a compliment.

 

wish them

what’s loitering

between

heart and belly.