Auditories Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

Like youngsters after school,
awakening,
glandular uprisings
endogenous effects
on voice,
fading without grace
settling, mist like
in cognitive anterooms,
if only the lights were out,
tactile communion,
the carminative,
slurping wisdom
of a carnal kind,
passages smoothed
by hapless sap,
so vital,
signals gushing
a mélange
of soft fatigue,
the changing tide,
a solitary maple leaf
suffices
as it blankets all
keeps secrets in the well
new life inside a shell.