The Ocean Within Her

THE OCEAN WITHIN HER an updraft tosses a gull above a mast wind began to blow rain started to fall laughter scattered over sunset she longs for his touch...an anticipation almost ...too... much his touch just inches away now her world in slow motion just above her pubic hair an archipelago of islands the birthmark intensely blue his eyes touching her all over she never felt naked when she was naked dressed in his love she wore her nakedness as if it were exotic plumage naked his hands dressing her in his caresses her hands like birds taking flight her eyes bluer than any sky her hand stroking gently his shoulder she licks his clavicle a lizard clings to the china figurine its tongue snatches a fly she remembers the fraction of a second in which the kiss happens she breathes in the scent of his skin kisses a pulse in his neck he takes her & takes her deep into a place where she's herself she dives down down into the uncharted oceans within her after they make love they listen to a dray horse pissing copiously on the morning TELEGRAM he thought about his wife's skin asleep on another continent awake he saw her asleep dreaming about them she was dreaming about him dreaming about her she dreams his kiss moans and moves digital clock flicks to 00: 00 a squally North wind scatters her drams on the loo...pees and smiles the telegram of his death trembles in her hands above her head a flock of birds