I dreamt of handmaid and wifery after I swam in the Tiber with Caesar, before his death

Lieing, in near silence
A pregnant pause
pendulous with possibility
To crude mind backstreets
it's the sound of in between

a quiet rusty expansion
of rib cages, of bedsprings
two backs of hands barely touching
to life paths barely crossing
one lonesome, sleepless tossing