the hem of a skirt caught in a faint breeze,
bare legs revealed as the wind rose
in its almost silent seasonal symphony.
And as where my heart is fitful,
drawing restless thunder,
yours is the calm before
every storm I long to know.
You can summon hardness from the soft,
find smoothness along stubble
with delicate wandering fingertips
that patiently awaken consuming hunger,
the frenetic charges dancing in particles
that rest between and always bind us.
You kiss with a grace that rougher creatures
could never possibly hope to emulate,
the choreography in the most simple movements
of your lips pulling me closer to a secret dance,
to sway of gentle collisions
merged with my visceral waves.
With so much anticipation hinged upon your grace,
our lips about to meet like tentative portals,
I’m taken back farther than I expected,
to years of watching fireworks explode
into timed bursts of skyward rainbows.
I’m taken back to every kiss I’ve known,
how the frenetic search along bodies
are now merely mysterious aftershocks
that will come to be forgotten in your wake.
I’m taken back to every bittersweet goodbye
and as where my heart is a dark fault line,
yours is a rippling radiant blossom,
the echolocation guiding me home.
Your grace quickly stripped me to the bone,
to the raw essentia of what I really am,
a twin soul in the very immediate midst
of invisible live wires binding us through time.
The cords revealed as wind rose
in its quiet but absolute symphony,
and as you’re swept into me,
destiny painted on nearing lips,
frenetic electrical charges dance
in spaces we have yet to close.
In the delicate plane about to be touched,
the beat grazed in the hollow of your neck,
I’m brought back to the full intensity
of every yearning I’ve ever known.
Of how you’ll make love with a possessive grace
that no fury could ever hope to recreate,
the universe peeled away and finally caressed
within the smallest, most crushing moments.
And as where my heart was lost,
I followed the imprint of yours,
echolocation transcribed through flesh,
the graceful beacon that will guide me home.
