back in the arms of cari…

“back in the arms of cari”

gettin’ back was
easy ’nuff;
beggin’, beseechin’
blanket remedy forgiveness
from your lips
& in your eyes;
caringkinddeliverance
torn from night’s
suffocating darkness.
sunrise will
smash apart
darknight; spilling sunlight
over-everything.
an easy-beauty
sensation;
you alone can
sanctify me.

properly attended to,
given back my
keyhole optimism
with small victories quickly
forgotten except by you.
enough for
salvation iced-cold tea,
rubbed down by memories
of your
hands rebuilding
everything in me broken
by distance & happenstance.
i swear i’ll never
hurt you;
you are sunlight &
warm,
i’m cold wind &
freezing rain.

blocked by
your defensive posture,
i can never stop trying.
familiar psychedelia
& i’m a sweetheart
for your wet tongue.
record time escaping
foreplay for laughter;
touch,
taste,
linger on the sight;
you are welcome here
with me even when you
say this is our last time.

my anodized-skin was
assembled from parts of
fading-nights,
rapturous beauty &
our last
exploration in
slick/sticky obsession.
chemical scenes played out,
i’m
riding your tongue
towards all those
golden promises
we couldn’t keep
together;
together we fell short.
you haunt my folded
empty spaces.

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Dedicated to a gorgeous woman who shall remain nameless but always loved. Inspired by a conversation on Saturday when I was told what all of this really means. Now I just want to know why. You’re pajamas on a stakeout, you’re Joe Henry’s hammer & your smile raises up degenerate poets to impossible grace. I want you to look at me like that & I’ll know every possibility on your tongue and there won’t be any other questions. (You always said I asked for the impossible. I thought that was why you liked me so much. Maybe it was.)