In deep dead sleep Your pounding flute

Calls me to consciousness

I follow into the woods as if dreaming

In the clearing Your round face echoes the moon

You beckon me to dance

Clumsiness drops from my limbs

As you draw me into Your rhythm

Hearts and arms entwine

I lose all sense of my finite body

You stop suddenly, silently kiss my forehead

Then disappear

Tongues of flame brighter than the sun

Burn through the top of my head

I open my eyes

Alone and back in my body

I wander in circles looking for traces of You

I find my hair ribbon but

Even the dust holds no clues

The first birds break the silence

I stumble home

Slip into bed

Spent and fractured, broken and tattered, and

Trying to pull the pieces of my heart back together

I roll over and sigh

“Beloved, nuke me again”

I drift into sleep with Your fragrance clinging to my hair

The weight of Your footprints deep in my heart

Beloved, it scares me sometimes, but please

Nuke me again