SCALES

August 03, 2005

The slightest touch can create a mastery.

You can.

To me.

There are lines dotted by
the cool, misty dew drops of your memories
ready to fall at the slightest movement.

Lines like the ones that streak from your shoulders
ending just above the swell of your breasts.
A creamy lather of skin that waft of salt and honey
exploding into a searing tenderness.

At night while dressing, you trace it,
catching my eye, calmly moving down.
Just down--
into the edge, dangling between the crevice
where I bury my face night after night.
I want the contours of my face
to mark permanently, the space
where the trapeze of your exhalations
swing from one breath-stopping arc into another.

I have built my sand castle around these four walls.
Burying my toes on the grainy texture of the sheets,
with sensations spanning every imaginable pore.
While watching you sleep after the sun has risen--

I hung suspended in mid-air.

A reverberating note that will not end until
every last sound is yielded to the touch of fingers
that own the music.




blue rogue