long arms lost in dream and bygone
touch my face
fingers peaking darkly
slide around my waste
dance around my gaze until you spear
it with a fearless taste
your bones displayed
between your breasts
the scarlet shadows of your ribs regress
the slurring pulses of the desert ebb
a body striped by hills
where bounding echoes move the grass like chills
i see ridges fanning out along your back
an inward carapace where lack
awakes
a neck of pains where looking back has stretched you wealth
the tender graveyard where a hundred million kisses dwell
forgotten like the tortures you rehearse so well
when i sip there you will ask why I restrain myself
and I will bite but still keep something back
and know my beast is more than when your pets attack
you tilt your chin so slowly like surprises wait
your eyes to float down, flowing down like tidal straights
to rest upon me, finding flaws to cast away
to judge me boldly, making love with menstrual haze
then pouring golden heart upon my broken grades
to make from all the shards
a star of open ways
the ray you wear,
your brow, your light,
the enervating gaze
cutting up a love crime
that I never phrased,
silenced by a touch of unrepentant praise
its darkening clears
a sky that throws its clouds away
for something that one cannot dream
to break this dessicating play
and then your eyes flow out, a golden honey wave
that lifts each shoddy piece and does not tear away
and baths all that is seen in some enchanted ray
now all you love is saved for one who saved your love
and you will rend the arms that reach for holidays