Those few hours - While you were gone

While you were gone

We talked

We touched

We slid melting

Ice cubes over

Sweat slick thighs

While you were gone

We danced barefoot

To the little radio

In the kitchen

Naked

Ate chocolate chip

Cookies and licked

Crumbs off our faces

Together

While you were gone

We laughed

Softly and hard

As the light fell

We sat face to

Face and fingered

Eyelashes

Until

With an unwarning whir

You returned

In blaze of light and

Blaring voice

And caught us

In reimpowered

Sixty inch eye

Shamed separate

we covered ourselves

And resumed

Our silent watch

Power restored