the heat here among hearts and hands
while I am all my grinning you
brush your hair back over and
over laughter when the tricks are -
bluffs and feints and well played plays-
better than anything ever and
how fingers brush again reaching
( for cards forgetting whose turn ) it was
in the while where smiles speak and
then this is just the slightest touch
which asks 'how much are you alive
in hopes I might reach out in kind' and
then in boldness brush again
all we are is sifting through hands
where I end and you begin
