like midnight saturated with shadows,
like when you taste the rain in the air...

your skin drinks the pale moonlight;
your lambent lips beckons to the sea...

between the amber, cream, flax and
goldenrod, the skies fold in sorrow...

where dreams unfurl in the veil of moonlight –
you are there, blossoming like night-jasmines...

the watchfire extinguishes with the
stirring of the salted-winds, sea foam...

my head atop your chest, inundated with the sound
of your beating heart, i whimper and instinctively...

like pink clouds
preceding the most...

--
i swallowed your words and they...

--
i keep sweating, the air is drenched with...

I know you tuck away clippings
of chrysanthemums before...

the wind stirs again,
coveting lands that have...

yesterday, you remembered nothing but
craved peaches and cream – it’s was your...