Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A Moment Between Lovers

 

Kisses her closed eyelids, cheeks;

breathes warmly into the well of her ear,

catches the lobe between his teeth,

gently pulls; runs opened lips slowly

downward to her shoulder; she shivers;

counts the vertebrae of her neck with the tip

of his tongue, and beneath the collar of her blouse;

a lizard with electric feet scuttling down

the length of her spine; she opens her eyes;

a momentary shimmering of the air between her

and the window, then focussing, looks out onto

the field like the small exhilarations of her skin

are blooming there; his arms around her,

his fingertips kissing her still.

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