And I wanted to tell her my dream that she would be satisfied
with me/that the importance she ascribed to having an actively
nonmonogamous sexual life would fade/that in my mind she would
find a community as diverse as any/in my hands would be revealed
a language of new gestures/in my eyes were swimming visions sufficient
to orient a superlative future/in my face were unfamiliar expressions
waiting to emerge/in my voice were the murmurs of many/in my ears
were a thousand songs/in my feet a world map/that I had been building/I
had been learning/had been storing/was ready/but