• love

    every night i die and am reborn again; i have gone through a thousand deaths in mere days so that somehow we meet again in the plains of wild roses; its a long way, i have some more dying to do; love, i am exhausted,

  • thighs

    i want us to kiss like the two thighs of a human body, and move swinging with and past each other in total entanglement—and the world surges around us, pulsating, vibrating, throbbing; oozing milk and honey / ecstatic—

  • 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