Have you ever been in love
she asked
she was young

her dress was light
and rode up high
skin smooth there

a breast fell open
a nipple, red
it scratched my arm,
gouged

i'm hot, and alive

Cut me, cut me
your razor, your nipple

cut me open and make me alive

May i come closer?
. . . . . eyes asking
. . . . . . . . . . eyes, yes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . loving.

i want to be close, our spirit free to travel.
. . . . . your body asking for my freedom,
. . . . . . . . . . finding it in the caress of your nearness

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you give it with your asking

our clothes abandon us
. . . . . and we abandon them, for each other.
hello, we both say. new friends we are tonight.
. . . . . . . . . . begin this moment

we move to one another, move for one another
. . . . . . . . . . (because of)
motion for motion, rhythm for rhythm, heat for heat
. . . . . . . . . . love for love
. . . . . greeting, skin meeting
touching curves, curves opening to be touched
. . . . . 'asking curves', curves giving
. . . . . . . . . . finding curves (hungry)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mouths
. . . . . your lips and mine searching, fully, for the taste
(finding, losing, finding . . . ) of togetherness.
. . . . . ever searching, beautifully hopeless search

. . . . . my body feels yours as the rest of the universe. and
i am included, in the remembering of oneness
with you.
. . . . . my hands touch you and i am exploring myself. it's
so obvious with you.

. . . . . . . . . . our bed
. . . . . skin reaching out fondly, playfully, creatively
. . . . . . . . . . becoming every moment, every movement . . . . . (warm)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . creating each other
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ourselves
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . self
. . . . . . . . . . selfcreation

. . . . . i know you don't like games. tonight there are no games
being played; unless you call love a game.
. . . . . . . . . . - if it is, there is laughter in our play

. . . . . your arms return me to now, thank you.
. . . . . . . . . . and i am in the sky
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i am the sky
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with you
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and the earth

(though in reality you love another)

i am the earth and sky with you