( my body's secret heart )

drawn to the vortex
recalled inside like wet silk cloaking rigid shadow
i felt every surge deep in my soul
the affliction of memory and desire too full for flesh to contain
by firelight: copper-rich and ocean tang and the musk of deep rose
giving way to slick surrender

ascending and descending
widening and sliding
aligned into something new

( my body's secret heart )
opening and closing around you, only you, always you

possessed wholly, rapture-fierce, beyond reach of mind or will
the thirst that raged
behind my eyes a bright, discordant melody
darkness and light

( a little of me shall go wih you )
death and rebirth
( i promise )
pulsing with the blind radiance of opal-stone
expiring in slack, satiated breath