i put my ear

to her back

and hear

at night

what i can only describe

as a roaring

going on inside

it seems

all the time

like you would

put your ear

to a sea shell

and hear the ocean

inside

but with her

is the fiery inside

of a furnace

like a train engine

that a brusque man

with his sleeves rolled up

feeds coal

with a shovel

or the white noise

of space

if you were hurtling

very fast forward

and wind was whipping

past your ears

all this energy

inside

of her sweet silent

sleeping small body