i desire

  1. Strong body! 

Body that can spring up.

Body that can curl and fold softly down,

Wriggle into my lover’s pit, 

Hold both she and I up with one arm 

Doing what I please with the other. 


2. Music.

The intimacy of rhythm as union

Melodies that unbind these ropes 

Rerender them rescue cords 

When I sing them 

Friends known and not yet known 

Feel me in each flourish and tug

Chords like an ancient wind

Insistent suspensions 

Whistling breath skittering 

Across some porous surface 

End the throaty vibrations of some 

Subterranean sleeper. 


3. Land

where even or especially 

The aroma of detritus ~ 

Decomposing leaves 

Decaying fruit 

The spit of gorgeous worms 

~ where death and waste are 

Merely making musty microbial musk 

The scent of a rich soil bed 

Calling for creepers and pigeons and 

All souls to 

Get 

It 

On 


4.Water

~ lapping, rushing 

Cooling, cleansing

Rivers I can drift along. 

Waves that are real doms

Dragging, pummelling, flipping me over 

Bathing, being bathed

I love holding myself

In water in candlelight, 

Golden beads of liquid travelling 

Magma over steaming flesh terrain. 


5.Communityyyyy

You 

And I, you and she, she and them 

We and he, he and them 

And she and you 

We meet through the recognition of 

A shared struggle against the waste of greed

The absurdity of capital 

(The connection destroyer) 

The promise of a borderless world if only 

We were simply truthful with each other