I have found
meaning in the morningI dance under the
cherry trees on the
pink streetswaving one arm above
the othertongue between my
teetheyes barely open
the sun kisses my bare back
laughingshe knows what it’s
like, how I’m feelingginger in my spicy
breathclaw marks on your
backI have changed a lot this year.
I swear that I could pick
the way your skin tastes in the shower
out of an entire field of moonflowers
all standing like tiny trees beside our barefeet
just wanting to be near us
while the summer wind swirls in a way only it can
as quiet as the candle burning
making silhouettes of these words and fingertips
their shadows stretching across your shoulders and thighs
the shadows that are filled to the brim with delicate rainclouds
aching to be the shower of another poem
and of course,
I’d know that taste anywhere.
Love,