Risk

I knew you were forbidden
from the moment you wrote me.
This is a minute risk.
You are safe with me.

A Dose

I dance around my grounded sun
I ask her if it’s okay
She moans
and says
worry not of the sacrifice
Her purpose is to die each season
to remind us of light
how it feels
lay a dose of her

Drenched

A decade ago

a sewn lifetime

stole a kiss and

with many lessons

came a whiter circle

more clever with drive

knowing freedom was drenched

in the rivers of letting go

June 15, 2024

My, my, my, X.
Wind-chimes braid themselves
up and down my core,
shivers down my spine, fingers spaced apart.
My center solidifies and my mind melts—
a proper malfunction…
.
Sometimes I wonder if he sees me.
I see him.
No pressure, no law.
I need X for certain things,
he needs me for certain things.
.
It won’t last,
I hold on to the now.
Let go.
Lean…
.
I think we can be good for each other.
I reject the law
that says only permanence has worth.
Connection is enough,
even if it shifts and dissolves.
.
Our fingertips touch—
flashing life, lust, tenderness.
I’ve never seen his eyes before.
I recognize his touch as my own.
I remember the caress of every lover.
.
I don’t know him
But his wild is my wild.
I honor what we are,
without demanding what we are not.
I want.. I don’t receive..
I’m too solid
There’s something I’d..
I can see..
If he falls

For You

i look at you
seeing
iridescent color
the whole spectrum of feelings

it’s instinct to summon
for you
call on the Gods
for you

trim the slivers of my heart that owns you
shed the skin
that touched you

Crystal Clear Confusion

The center is a labyrinth.
We close our eyes to seek it
It likes to absorb itself
in hues of the abyss
Our fragments hide and seek
Bend at the pond
That foreign transparent center
Crystal clear as confusion

Ache of Mars

It was sudden
arriving
from the planet of heat
quick and painful
I named it as ache
something blessed
something to hold on to
landed right beside
my red mirror
I stared through it
for days and years
masquerading as a maiden
make believe
I’m holding on for dear life
I rub
clay mask on my body
made of waterfalls,
blood, fire, and iron
I’m rocky now after now
I’m saying all sorts of things
like how
unfortunate it is
Mars is barren

Flesh

She was
a woman of flesh
pacing
back and forth
softened down
till her belly aches
chaotic to escape
with everything to lose
and those summer blues
lived
to consume her
she
adored being consumed
after allowing herself
to turn stray
hmm
maybe someday

Slippery Slope

I’ll pick at your hair strands
till the middle of the night
We stare down the paths
Rejoice in the left
It’s a slippery slope
the right

Gift us a vision
we can indulge in
A voice
to keep us away

Forbidden Star

You’re talking to her
The forbidden star
Untouchable from where you are
You both yearn and dance together from afar.
I know what you mean
The twisted being in a world unseen
When space is tight and obscene
Your eyes quite lean
Is that your queen