You descend like rain
on fleece and I am
a second hand circling
nights around your
face. Bowed in sleep
you form in clusters
past the window ledge
and burrowing deeper in
the sheets set fires.


About Charles Bane, Jr.
Charles Bane, Jr's work has appeared previously in The Montucky Review, and other print and online journals. His second book of poetry, New Poems By Charles Bane, Jr. will be published by Curbside Splendor in March, 2012.