sweet grows sweat
in musky glow,
as afterimage burns in eye
where snow
is warmer scent to cradle
comfort craved,
in cavern tossed
of headlights lost in season
as tempests fingered
secret shadow
guides healing hand, in heavens blush
and softer rush of thigh
to quiver,
in sated quench
where touch is tender
ransomed reason,
in such spirit's mind to sigh
as gift
is tongue
in freer speech
to quest in quavered shy delight
as mountain rocks
in newer thunder
shaken from such core of earth,
where tires turn in circle burned
in truth,
of fevered flesh as worth
in waves to founder lost foundations
flight on wing, of trembled birth

