MORTISE-AND-TENON

The fit is strong.

There is an

arts and crafts quality

to it. And yet

its give and take

are so basic,

blindly simple,

natural,

even coital,

you might say.

Isn’t this what 

we all want:

this kind of easy 

coupling?

To be joined at a table

with someone where

passions are

effortlessly offered

and received? –

and may have nothing

at all to do

with carpentry.