POEMS
Tomes that bespeak
the best of us
All I want to do
is smother you with warm light
caress you like
body-temperature waves
that never break
but keep
circling
in moonlight
mushy, mush
mush
Underwater I am learning to
hold my breath
but every once in a while
I cough and let the air out
and gag
when I misspeak
and I feel like the
world’s biggest ass
and worry that
my bated breath
my love for you
be judged not
in the totality of
that digilence
but
that time
when I let the
air out so
stupidly
is smother you with warm light
caress you like
body-temperature waves
that never break
but keep
circling
in moonlight
mushy, mush
mush
Underwater I am learning to
hold my breath
but every once in a while
I cough and let the air out
and gag
when I misspeak
and I feel like the
world’s biggest ass
and worry that
my bated breath
my love for you
be judged not
in the totality of
that digilence
but
that time
when I let the
air out so
stupidly