G., C., A., and G.

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He has an echo bone inside his chest.

It sends its slight reverberations when

His heart remembers, with a slight arrest

Of breathing, kisses in Loch Lomond’s glen,

Or just one kiss while crushed against a car

Beneath a streetlamp and beneath a lover’s weight,

The weight of love beneath a drug-like star,

The weight of love beneath a lover’s fate;

And Edinburgh night when love stepped out

And walked with him from first-class hotel door

And went with him to places lovers shout

Between the sheets where love is love and more.

  Reverberations bring a sympathy

    Between the ribs of each where lusts agree.

~ Phillip Whidden