photo by Alex Lear

he gets off at 4:30 / it’s 6:09 now

here…    

an unencumbered softness

my naked breast / taste me

the luminous curve of crimson

lips eager to flutter 

across bearded dark fullness / kiss me

the form fitting expectancy

of tense anxious arms / embrace me

a moist tangled crescent

immodestly blanketing

my fertility / enter me

none of me is mine

all of me is yours

here am i / where are you?

—kalamu ya salaam