Drowning

i like my body

“I love you.

Silence.

More Silence.

“I still love you even if you don’t love me.”

“I do.”

“Show me.”

“I don’t know how.”

          We were looking at each other. I was looking at the moon in your left eye. You were looking at me looking at you in my eyes. Our eyes shared corresponding flickers. You touched my neck and I felt it in my waist.

                     I like my body when it is with your / body.

          You kissed my neck and I heard our breath fall into the same rhythm and then back out. I imagined our eyelashes intertwining like fingers. But we couldn’t get close enough for that. I felt the flesh of my shoulders grow cold and then warm again-- coldness flowing like so, down to my ankles and then disappearing for almost ever.

                    It is quite so new a thing. / Muscles better and nerves more.

          I kissed you and our lips embraced and our tongues collided with sweet licks of wetness. And your fingers travelled and my hushed moans strained beneath your weight. I bit my lip. You bit my neck. Your back curved with every subtle movement i like your body. i like what it does, and I remembered your lips and /i like its hows. pulled you so they were together. Again.

                    i like to feel the spine / of your body and its bones, and the trembling

          I let my palms search and find and discover. /-firm-smooth ness and which i will my fingers and palms made small and careful ups and downs / again and again and again I started to cry and so did you and I wondered if our tears stung the same way / kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

                    i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

                    of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

                    over parting flesh...And eyes big love-crumbs,

                    and possibly i like the thrill

                    of under me you quite so new

We fell asleep reciting Cummings back and forth. Line by line. I don’t remember the last words we said. They must have faded so beautifully away from our whispering lips.