we are honeyed with
the rays of our summer.
i have never been
so green with love.
our hours wean with
the passing of the heat
but there is time yet.
so still we twine
together, your hands
heavy on my hips
mine splaying
the small of your back.
ours is an unstoppable,
unsaid promise as wide
as the solstice is long.
our summer is endless
forests soaking in the sun,
warmed bodies tucked
together on beds of moss.
i’ll be honest,
i reach for you
most mornings like
a sprout to the sun
and
i wax and wane
a hundred times a night.
looking to be pulled
around you.
so
taken by your touch,
like waves across sand,
i grasp constantly
for you.
i am awash
in traces of you
and dire not to rinse it away.
though we have not lay together for
well over twenty-four hours
or traced rivulets down
expanses of skin,
the leftover fervor keeps me
held fast to you.
i am drenched
in the acts of loving.
with you i am soft and vibrant
like moss in an old-growth forest.
i have never been so towering.
we are a boundless canopy of trees
and i am in awe of us,
for together we dim the stars.
it’s been four aeons
and still there is a hitch
in my heart for you,
a pull and a jolt and
mingling beyond parting.
from this i know for certain
our atoms formed in the
bellies of the same stars.
today i do not have the
comfort of the mountains,
autumn here knows when
to covet them away,
when to make me feel
as if i am the only
being on this damn
patch of earth.
and there is a chill in the air,
not quite from the
impending winter,
and not quite from the earth
showing us her bare bones.
it is the cold felt
when we parted ways,
lingering like bitter
breaths in the atmos.
oh, how quickly the trees
lost their leaves here,
almost as if they know
how sudden autumn
should fall when you are
hundreds of miles from home.
i will see you again
but not before the
tamaracks blind me in
their golden splendor,
seemingly evergreen
until autumn sends its
tendrils out for a taste.
you will see me again
but not before the winter
steals me away in
her ivory embrace.
while i’m gone dream me
something tangible,
like hands over gooseflesh.
dream your lips on my skin,
and my gaze scouring every
inch of you as we slip
decidedly into a rhythm
yet discovered.
dream me a way
to love you more from
eight hundred miles away.
dream our minds burning
against each other
as well as our cricket legs
joining together under the covers.
dream that we are enough apart
as we are together.
dream of me
full of light at all angles,
stars alighting the
soft corners of me.
while i’m gone
dream me the world
where we’re together again.
we shared a kiss so green it flourished
under the mantle of stars and
i've never felt so whole, or so undone.
an unrelenting passage of time had
kept us apart, not unlike the waves
that separate the shores.
but now there is honeysuckle and
wildflowers where our pale shadows touch,
overlapping limbs causing murmurations
and gooseflesh that could rival mountains.
together we are boundless like
howls echoing in the fallen snow,
the birch-whites of eyes,
and evening midwinter fires.
we are embers in the twilight, circling,
addressing the other as
age-old paramours.
when you claimed her,
you were taming an ocean.
her ardor was not soft though,
as the albatross alighting
upon her placid surface,
it was unyielding, like water caressing
splintered hulls of run-a-ground ships.
but your tender hands barely
had to skim her to make
waves with a zenith that
brushed the stars and brought
their light down for her to taste.
you crested her waves and
softly, like the albatross,
she became endless with you.