Fay Slimm.

Besting the Best

 

Besting the Best.

Those crackles from wood on after-work
fires are warmly relaxing
as is the swish of home-winging birds or
rain on panes making a splash
or Summer\'s light murmur of night-wind
passing thru slumbering  trees.

and what of those
somnolent tocks after slow ticks of my
grandfather clock
or the continuous sizzle as near boiling
my kettle sings on the hob?

None of these soothing rhythms ever

come near to besting the best for me     

as sounds most precious and gentlest 

are low whispers of your satisfied sleep

and slow breathing, next to my breast.