Driving Away

driving away from my heart again back to my husband's home where I live for now the ache is inhuman yet uniquely human to love so deeply that separation even short of duration causes such loss such longing

desire ebbs

not at all

as distance flows

between us

through tear-streaked

windshield I see

only his face

hazel eyes

devouring me

I still feel his touch

like a fire

on the headlight stained highway

our asphalt umbilical

that brings us as quickly together

as it throws us apart

until time

and the gods

allow more

poem © 2006

photo - Bay Bridge, CA. 2007