your heartbeat
alive ‘neath my pressing fingers-
(i do not press gentle-
god didn’t make me to do so
and to see you bruise
to see your white blood cells put to work
your body put to work,
such would be oh so divine)
your breath
warm against my face
spit and spittle
frothing out your cracked lips
i kiss
alive, you and i-
live with me
here in this vibrant light
of new dawn cracking against
the night
bleeding red sunlight into the sky
oh darling,
oh my sweet thing
your blood,
warm ‘neath your skin
trickling out
and i know that within you
bone and tendon and sinew
make maps of the whole of you
and your soul alights the night
with each slow, deliberate breath
each pulse, each blink
oh darling,
alive tonight,
you and i
bathed in this
vibrant
light.