Stir...

I arose at midnight
reaching for the pillow
which so recently
held your dear head in somnolence...
I am disquiet
with aching
in my realization that I
have wakened - alone

A distant grumble of thunder
sounds, lowly;
perturbed by withheld rain
which will not yet be birthed,
the sky
this night
voices also
her need for release

Moon,
profiled - dimly opaque
among companions of stars,
sequestered within
a quieted gloss of cloud
stirs not -
blissfully unaware
of the turbulence
in earth-bound hearts...


   � K.E.Cline, 7/16/97
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