in a name

I'd like to $foo with you

word missing, lexical gap, so in lieu

this metasyntactic variable

will have to do

But for what?

intimacy too broad and

somehow

(snuggling?

sometimes touch has spikes)

There remains still joy

in companionship shared

trust in word and silence

always presence even

separated by miles months

years then joined rejoined

with a word and a promise

of bodies