expand, taut skin sparking

sharp and hot. peel off rocks, curved

vessels full of yawning toothy sky           or

that teary green, thousand winking archives,

cut-glass shoulders. here

I echo and unfold like a napkin

taking flight in sudden wind,

waiting & reaching

first dip of the summer —

one lung blown wide

submerge, completely,

until: blur:

sun-drenched stupor, each drop

a free-wheeling collision

kissing chapped lips into hungry bloom.

fade to blue and balmy

all contours and warm hollowed spaces

quiet like a prayer:

held in palm an infinite goodbye

underwater, eyes change hands




candy-coloured sweat: filmy casing

like a third body:

frozen time. light catches

ice melting in clammy-grasp,

condensation forming is a gasp

or a promise uttered aloud,

salty-granular and always in motion

hugging the open air

all glistening bodies,

slide on the sticky sweet floor

in between the bass and the next limb

come out the other end glowing

wet and dancing new, each

an oil slick, a wave of sound

I count my breaths on my fingers

sink into lip gloss pooling

heat phantom and piercing

this is communion, this is ritual

to feel synchronicity in deep electric

&           forget the body, intimately