Whenever/
though ununited on a daily basis
we remain close as skin, significant
as dreams wherein
one could never be untwinned
as long as the other lives
even when connections come infrequent
as the rouge arrival of comets
the relation remains constant
—the recycle
of sun warmed water
uprising
out of life's surging sea
& returning eventually
a gentle falling
translucent
rain
wetting
the dark
of our
receptive
earth
—kalamu ya salaam