Michal—-looked through a window and saw
          King David leaping and dancing before the
          Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
                                                               —II Samuel 6:16

moving and moaning
under our coverings
i could only guess
what women know
but wife
in the open arms of God
i became man and woman
filling and emptying
all at once
and oh the astonishment
of seed
dancing on the ground
as i leaped and turned
surrendering
not what i had withheld from you
but michael from myself.