Inhaling (wrote 4/17... this morning)

Inhaling

a deep long

breath,

I took time in my mouth,

and held her there,

upon her request,

she exorcized her demons.

I gave birth to

words and sex

in my sleep,

dripping down tongues

of sailors,

come to flirt

with the earthen shore,

for a brief

delicious interlude,

though the ocean

always calls them back,

as ever,

homeward,

and shedding a tear,

I missed them and

their one mistress,

the sea.

I felt the fires

in the bellies

of women

and fucking

loved them for it,

miracles and absinthe,

lust and cum and

forgiveness,

all twas lovely,

in the midst of

tornados and oh those

sad bombs,

thrashing,

and I just wanted to

hold your bones

together

with my heart.