The truth is lying on the bed sheet
covered by the duvet
It is touching her back tracing the vertebrae
He lets out a sigh
she flicks her big toe against the next toe
hard so that the bed vibrates
which means / has come to mean
that she can’t sleep until they are
closer to the part of the sheet covered by the duvet
where they will try not to forget each other
She touches the truth
when he gets up for water
it doesn’t shudder just stays there straighter, stiffer
Now he hugs his own body
holding the parts he believes
no he knows make him male and stronger
and she feels the bed’s sharpness and jerks with her chest
just enough so he thinks she is sobbing and
the truth is still lying on the bed sheet covered by the duvet
where they will try not to forget each other