"On A Trip To Wisconsin"
Crisp, soft floral-print sheets
a few layers of gentle blankets comforter and quilt
ensures that we stay the warmest while we
cuddle in bed every chance that we get,
your skinny arms and legs wrapped tightly around me
like a little child just like you are a child and in a way
you are, your are my child, my husband, my beautiful boy
noses rubbing and hands clasping one another's backs
we hold one another like two halves of a whole
never to be separated.  This week you must travel
to Wisconsin in our little tuna-can-car, and i am
very worried that neither you nor our car will make the trip
still i am going to be in constant prayer for you my husband
traveling is cold and lonely and fearsome, frightful, why must you
leave me here to sleep in our soft bed alone and cold for four nights?
When you return i will wrap my arms and legs are you and yours
around mine.  when you get older intercourse isn't what we want
so much anymore, we just want to press our bodies against
against one another and absorb one another's body heat.
Godspeed you my child, come home to me safely!
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.