We lie
in each other’s arms.
Love stained sheets around us
whorled, like a galaxy
seen from a distant eye.
The searing heat from your skin
pours into mine
each cell...
your mirror lips extend my own
riddles i mouth you deftly decode
and sweetly spit back into me
key swap gold
your seaweed hair captures sight
locks bait and...
I’m sitting here
{on this thorny chair}
reading Neruda
and Bukowski,
actually no,
I’m not reading
{I tried and got tired of it}
but I am listening to Lana Del Rey,
to...