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Water and salt

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I dip my finger
into a cup of saltwater

& paint glassy vines
around your eyes.

You lie on the linoleum,
your hair a wilderness,

your body a statue
of humming stone

that fills me with the ache
of unlighted candles.

.

The invisibility
behind my name

touches the invisibility
behind yours

the way a leaf
brushes against its own tree.

I whistle bird-songs
onto your lips

& look at you
hard,

as if you were disappearing
into the brief carbonation

& half-light
of a crashing wave.

.

Air & light
sink into one another.

Water & salt
mingle,

thirst
builds

& we breathe
more light

than air.
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sherbetblooms's avatar
This is one of my favourites...in the history of everything.
Wow. I think I just died :heart:
This is hardcore DD material!