Navigation: 1st Marriage

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1^st marriage

defined: activity of accurately ascertaining one's position 
and planning and following a route

or

defined: a combination or mixture 
of two or more elements

really :  a bed 

shrunk from love and then the lack

and the absence

of love

the insult it had become

for both of us, the ugly

and the unblessed.  maybe we

trade in the honeymoons
to suit

                the experts who
only over time

and those waves made by the wind

in the yearly washed
and hung out to dry counterpane

in the percale sheets

in your least (don't the pills
feel like flees on your bare
skin if you had bare skin
after the first year)

favorite fabric

take you and me to the opposite

edges of the bed and set us in hunger

while our eyes rout

and our elbows gouge

and  our knees and toes hold anchor

against the muck

we’ve allowed ourselves

to become once the absence
of touch

has frustrated out tongues

and dried them distinctly preserved

                                to resemble

the left and right wing tips (depending
on which corner of your lip
you lick at the time of this
description)

of a long, long extinct species

of bird or water

mammal sunk and covered

and ultimately unexcavatable.