• rested

    every night i drink you through the skin, like the sun dipped under the sea, strings of warmness seep into the underbelly pooling like liquid fire under my breast; and should dream-like wakefulness be, this under the eaves of your long lashes i find myself rested,

  • abyss

    i could die in the valleys of your cheeks, through rain or thunder, your eyes could swallow me whole and i would whisper; take me, let me float forever in the abyss of your being,

  • precipice

    your name plays on my secret smile, the sound dances over the curve and cupid’s bow ready to strike; i have trapped your name under the tongue for so long, it’s hissing out; sweet precipice, it’s thundering—the lungs pump like bellows— fire!

  • wither

    oh custodian of my heart and soul, i am afraid the garden withers, the roses wilt in this drought, my lips long for water and your hands have gardened so much earth; please take mine

  • tulips

    the vessel leaks with every hammer, the shell cracked has twin tulips rising, untwisting and free, each tilted and bent neck and elbows uncocked and stretched with such relish, oh sweet sun; i have finally tasted you

  • vilify

    i must vilify love; what is sacred must be tested and torn to such cruelty and agony that should annihilation come to pass, it too shall be life-affirming—

  • drowning

    how do i look at you? i can’t look, without every subtle movement on your face overwhelming me, awash with so much of everything; i am terrified, my eyes rove fast and still not enough to drink you proper—without drowning;

  • unlike

    what does a whale see watching swallows take flight? what does a swallow see in the immensity of a whale? each unfathomable, skies and sea, sea and sky, so unlike; skimming currents

  • decadence

    your black body, diamond studded, curls around me warm; i could never have enough of the thousand suns seeded all over you, dripping decadence like you were made to feed lips that open wide

  • devolve

    why must you escape gravity, be drunk on that pull, devolve into total mush like thick moss deep in the woods, sink further, don’t be afraid, let it grab you by the legs and swallow you whole into the musk,