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.”