All So Perfectly Still

Remember racing to the top of that hill as we seemed to climb into the sky higher higher neck & neck until you floored me with a rugby tackle & we fell laughing limbs all a tumble entangled & we lay all so perfectly still letting the grass grow up between our toes listening to the world with our backs two stranded starfish with interlaced fingers. And how when it rained we didn’t move just lay there all so perfectly still soaking it all up drinking the world in saturated with delight drenched to the skin our clothes sculpted to our bodies like effigies in churches a knight & lady held forever in stone & I turned to see your smiling face strange & horizontally happy your mouth open drinking rain laughing your lipstick mouth and I soaking you all in never ever forgetting what I knew then and we lay all so perfectly still letting the sun dry us naturally clinging to a hillside somewhere in England out of this world waving at the satellite talking our photograph at one with the universe stretching out before us our love.