An Unfolding Of Us.

We were lingering at
the doorway
to my lily-white room
materializing
as creeping trellis over doubts
There was a moment of hesitation
and then I kissed you through the door

Our skin was burning
When you pressed your body to mine
my silk dress burned away
the applique doves came to life and flew away
with the ashes
Your eyes were dark
as you pulled me onto your hips

The bed gave way
to sunset surrenders and the joinings of ceramic skin
to the endless haunting hungers of high tide
romancing

I felt our bodies falling
like we were filtering into the bottom
of an hourglass
sifting through time
so maybe we were there for weeks
Maybe we never left,
never stopped reciting
the poetry in the cracks of one another's skin
I just know

that the frenetic kisses
tore every secret from the scabs in my lips
My fingertips were aching
I dug down deep in your blood
to soothe them

When we came you made the world bloom in me
I was divine,
reverenced
as much a piece of you as the songs
I hear in every inch of you
You lit me on fire
When I came from the ashes
I was returned as
your Persephone.lover
painting daisies on your cheekbones
inciting you

into the fury of dark carriages

My eyelashes crashed against yours
[an unfolding of us]
and in my mind I still saw you
like no one else ever will