Tonight

Tonight, let your substance ascend

establish my dreams with flesh

let your kisses travel distances and oceans

swallowing fresh my glances with your legs of

eucalyptus.

Cover me with your persimmon shape

collapsing my passion from behind you

bend the night like a sheet covering my eyes

with your delicate mouth.

Moist flower corrode my shoulders

with your galloping breath of roses,

break my flesh, weight my heart

with softness and ankles,

surround my swollen timbers.

Let your bosom satiate my bones

penetrating my face with flowing hair

envelop me with chins and teeth

gingerly grating my skin delicately

with hunger.

Encompass me with fragrant dampness

that tastes like a pomegranate sweating,

press against my body with mounting sighs.

O sweet night scantily clad and sheer.

Extinguish my impulses to flee and let me

embrace the night,

gather your fingers like chains thirsty.

Impale me with amorous writhing.

Enclose me like the foam is

enclosed by the sea.


Kevin Harling.

Arched

Tourmaline ankles

like the wind

stretch my eyes gravity

downward.

I reach your

soft vellum

flesh of apricot toes

cradle it within my hands.

I am impressed by

the architecture

how it sways and swings

like a bridge

spanning all my horizons.

I have seen beauty

but upon the ground

it has no equal.

Kevin Harling.