Siesta
On our hot
July bed
sweat listens to
the curtain’s undulating
monologue
profound communication
between animate and
inanimate beings
who eavesdrops
who in silence
hides his pain
taste the nectar
of my lips—you said
but leave on them no shame
albeitmyfierydesire
“Vernal Equinox” by Manolis
Hellenic Canadian Literature 