Loving Between Darkness and Light

3 a.m. and waiting
for you to close
come home
slip from your uniform
slide into bed.

your smile in greeting
a soft click and a vanishing
sliver of light behind you
rustling comforters
our arms filling
with one another

luxuriously we linger
within long moist night
between darkness and light
the way we move now in
and out of you.

-michael s. queen
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