Charles Rammelkamp - A Night of Passion

Charles Rammelkamp - A Night of Passion

 

Charles Rammelkamp is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore and Reviews Editor for The Adirondack Review. A chapbook of poems, was published last year by FutureCycle Press. Two full-length collections are forthcoming in 2020,Catastroika, from Apprentice House, And Ugler Lee from Kelsay Books.

 

 

 

 

A Night of Passion

 

When I say

Kendra and I spent

a night of passion,

remember, we were on Venus.

 

The only two on the mission,

like a Space Age Adam and Eve,it was like we’d quarantined ourselves

in our own Garden of Eden,

millions of miles from humanity.

 

With the slowest rotation

of any planet in the Solar System,

it takes two hundred and forty-three

Earth days to spin on its axis.

 

You do the math.

In the intimate dark

we lay in each other’s arms,

exploring each other’s body

for that entire night,

Kendra whispering deliriously

a word that rhymed with “Venus.”