Rich Mansfield's "Together" is about missing someone and wanting to be near them. The speaker starts with small wishes: a kiss, a brush of skin against skin. The repeated "sometimes I wish" makes these longings feel like they return again and again, quietly and without drama. Then the wishes grow. The speaker wants "more," and the poem moves from touch to sound and feeling: a sigh, a heartbeat, breath, even shared sweat.
What the speaker wants most, though, isn't passion alone. By the end, the wish is simply for her to "lay beside me" and to "breathe with me, in time." The poem slows down here, with short lines and repetition, as if the speaker is breathing in rhythm with the words.
The mood is tender, wistful and a little lonely. The poem suggests that what the speaker is missing is the sense of being in step with another person, more than any single act of intimacy.