strawberries of laughter

1.

it's as though you were deep inside me
and then
through some strange alchemy
of fog
and uncertainty
you enter my willing flesh,
white swans of desire
hiss and insinuate our hands,
antelope bleed into ashes
and the snow

ancient memories:
bared teeth, sinew and bone,
flesh

the sunrise prays the day,
we are absorbed now

drown inside the sea of us
like unwritten poems
a feather descends
and flames of rapture
consumes
this taste of us:

strawberries and chocolate
mangoes of lightning
zigzag
across the wilderness
our faces like marble,
encased in veins

gods on earth


2.

only the binding light
remains in your lover's breath
as I wash breakfast dishes
with bubbles of laughter