JACQUELINE TCHAKALIAN: LISTENING TO LEONARD COHEN IS BETTER THAN….

It’s the slide in
   his voice – enticing
      to sublime – that

I ride, infused, under
   sleep’s cover of bare
      dreams: lips busy,

limbs tangled, faces
   blurred:  silent
      angels all,  

scuddering about. Thank
   you, Leonard.     
      I hear rumble

in your voice, cracks
   to slip through,
      kneel of your knees

as you kiss the night
   away and I slide in
      and out of reverie