A path
with people passing
just there, but I cannot hear, I can only
fall into us
And your eyes
are lanterns, guiding me,
beckoning, and I follow,
fall into us
Your kisses
are water moving down my heated skin,
your lips, curl, encompass, your fingers wrapping, as I moan,
fall into us
The first kiss,
and you as a conductor, your fingers pulling at mine,
onto the train and into the night,
curving over mountains, through tunnels
Steam turning electric,
currents passing through me, burning and blinding
your fingers curled in mine,
a journey without end
The dancer
and the piano,
My fingers on the keys
her legs
scissoring
across polished wooden flooring,
click clack of stabbing, rhythmic heels
reflection up her body:
the once youthful legs,
spinning skirt
blood red dress,
bare arms spread wide
supporting stony face,
dark hair pulled tight
she pivots, struts, strides
to the beat I try to pull back, but…
fingers keying, hammering
strings one by one, faster
slower
(it ain’t my beat at all, after all)
driven by the click clack,
matching the stride, note to note
at first, her heels and my fingers
explode apart, a door opens
and she tangos out, alone
(as always, and better for it)
into dark streets, her own beat
as I break skin on keys,
smear blood in some desperate sacrifice
banging harder, moaning now, lights flickering out
in this room I love
There’s a luxury –
a pleasure
really, it’s that more
not like the joy
of an avocado
(not to dismiss that joy,
sliding along the skin,
opening the ripe fruit
to eager hands,
fingers sliding into flesh
to scoop
and taste
and slip along the tongue)
No, not that
but the ecstasy
of the familiar,
the wind rustling the trees
and that caress…
The fecund scent
of spring about to break,
the earth beginning to swell,
already pierced
again and again,
preparing to burst…
And this moment
in the trees,
amongst the trails
in stillness
on Ragged Mountain,
the only track my snow shoe treads behind me,
the slope above me
waiting to be explored,
if never known.
And the birds, the wind, the land
waiting to sing
as they birth
in this strange spring in winter.
When I was a reader,
spine balanced under palm,
fingers trailing along pages.
words that almost moaned and whispered aloud.
Eyes greedy,
seeking understanding
to know the body –
the work at hand,
moving from page to page,
syllable to syllable,
words that almost moaned and whispered aloud,
the whole growth and breadth of song after song,
the rising chorus,
Caroles and chants, hymns to the body,
the trembling page
underneath my roving hands, fingers, eyes….
words that almost moaned, whispered, screamed….
In joy
When I was a reader… with eyes to see
There was a wind
winding down from star to sea,
whipping along eastern ranges,
whispering strange words in accented syllables,
a Romanian Shakespearean rag,
sometimes humming something from The Weekend.
Sometimes a muse must be answered.
There were scrubs worn in the imaging room,
fancy dress for after,
the hint of musk on curving neck begging for a sniff,
there’s was that kiss and caress,
fingers to skin – oh, baby, that skin!
And the whisper of cloth dropping,
the dropping clickety-clack of high heels along a wooden floor.
Sometimes a muse must be answered.
There were those words, foreign accented,
challenging: querying and teasing,
a sip of gin, a taste of oyster,
the need to meet, to great,
and skirt along our freedoms –
the glowing heart, the dark eyed look.
Sometimes a muse must be answered.
I was kissing you with my mind
before my body –
only body –
quickened
in motion, in fluid,
in heat
some juice squeezed
from my pomegranate
thought like fire,
the mind that never wavered
querulous, you challenged me,
the push, the pull
there were breasts pressed
and there they bruised the teats of their virginity
instinct riding reason,
breaking will and focus
the hill, the aching climb
mountains and song, the gasping breath
and I drank of the wine and was drunken,
and lay uncovered within my tent
time and space
immaterial, an echo,
physic a false start, dark matter and the mirror galaxy,
gravity and wells, the dip in space
that proves it, curving like your belly
raising up to meet my lips
come unto me
