those tender raptures, within hushed explosions

you... my honey-coated galaxy of hushed sprinkled breaths

luminous matter dipped deep into creation

tasting your stars on the tip of my tongue

fingers dripping with you

liquid light that touched the moon

dusk embraces us

the night calling our names between the trees

that breeze from the ocean

filling my veins with the memories

of a thousand lives exhaled... and thousand more to come

mmm... with you in my chest

expanding those tender raptures

my clustered stars

bursting at the seams