Matters of Attraction

My beloved showed me beauty, the strong

nuclear force, binding quarks —


and its marvellous spin-off, uniting bodies.
Spanning atoms or stars, mysterious

glue, exchange of tangling tokens,
trinkets, touches, words —

body-breathed, fingertip written,

tracing undulating contours.

Following spacetime dimples, planets blindly
orbit their star.

Charmed, we lie, still,
eye to eye, in a darkened room, and worlds

fall away.  The cosmos shrinks
wrapping us.