Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Near the sea

Do not write love poems near the sea

She will hear in the scratch of pens on paper

The rhythms of rocking bodies

The sound of blood rushing to lips

The quick breathy hiss as pupils dilate

And, especially,

Do not write love poems in the sand by the sea

Neither with salt-whitened twigs or backs

But with knees sincere in composition

And eyes cast down

To see the grains of sand spread their filaments of need,

For, I tell you,

On the night of the new moon,

She is an ocean of desire

Her kiss deeper than the sky.


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