Whispers

Be careful
what you whisper
in gallery shadows
if
the return to reason
and the no-turning back
alteration
of her universe is
what you did not
intend.

Do you now,
on your sobering
backward journey
see too clearly?

That sensual corner:
you eased her into
that place.
by yourself,
turned her into
her heart's
spiraling:

Because you spoke in
whispers.