she reaches down with her smiling lips and kisses him and breathes life back into his body and the kitten flounders on the broiling parking lot and the wallet leaves a lonely shadow on the concrete and pacing back and forth in the strange apartment he wonders who , what , why and starving he falls asleep on the big bed , wakes to the softly resonating voice , the birds , the insects of the night and shes drowning , his wife is drowning and hes thundering her name over the water , the earth , the sky is moaning `` maria !