We wrestle on couches, wrestle on carpets,
wrestle in cars, crash flesh into flesh,
wrestle in chairs, wrestle to music,
make up new moves, we wrestle and cry,
wrestle ourselves, wrestle in sleep,
wrestle like counterpoint
sung in a church,
wrestle to eat, wrestle to praise,
wrestle to talk, to pray, to drink, we wrestle
for money, wrestle with books,
wrestle in mall fountains, banks,
we scuff up the clean floors of hospitals,
wrestle with breath, wrestle like trains
across states, away from the chest,
away from the arms, away from the hair, the hands,
until who we were wrestling is only a thought
we wrestle in air, as close as we can.