Teach me
how to spy
on you
with just
the corner
of one
eye
Teach me
how to whisper
in a way
only you
will hear
Teach me
to speak
in humid
growls
Teach me
to explore
the ridges
of your flanks
the pools
of your
clavicle
the piano
keys
of your chest
Teach me
to know
you
like I
know
the moon
and stars
Teach me
like I’m
a failing
pupil
tutor
me
It started
as an eyelash
in the eye
winking
past flickering
light
which bathed
you
in buttery
light
past you
flowers
teased
your ear
giggling
you lean
closer whispering
nothing
yet saying
so much
It’s nighttime
quiet the sheers
in my room pant
in the heat
and breezes
there’s a tossed
off sheet
at your feet
twisted and turned
like a white python
at your ankle
the twisting
and turning tells a story
of quickened kisses
hurried hands
and passion
Skies wept today
in Hawaii it came
in sheets and
sprinkles it stopped
and started like a clogged
hose now my eaves are
dripping like the
boy and the dyke
skies the color of my
den a softened mouse gray
covers Diamond Head
and my tiny house the crest
of the volcano surrounded
by white balloons of rain
Waikiki is bustling not bubbling
effervescence of residents
dampened by moisture
skies resemble late afternoon
prematurely darkening gloom
lands on my valley like a lid
rain is coming down now
clarifying my streets and
alleyways the dirt going down
drains anticipating blue skies
tomorrow
You
peak from
beneath the
comforter
naked
a foot pops
out awkwardly
you wear a
burka
your face
masked
by the crisp
cotton sheet smelling
like
us
this morning
sitting mesmerized
I study your
form like
a sculptor
I dream
sad dreams
they come
to me in
the night
like sirens
and poke
at me with
sharp sticks
they remind
me of my own
folly my lost
loves those
passed away
I’m hurled
upon the
rocky shore
of twilight
my galleon’s
mattress
softens
the crash
of my alarm
I went to the beach
yesterday
sand and sun
you could smell the surf
and feel salt on your skin
you laid next to me almost
naked
I too ashamed of myself
sat uncomfortably in the
sand like a turtle
flipping over onto your back
I saw your chest expand
and relax the mounds of
muscle found their rippled
beneath winds off the water
the trail of hair trailed from
your nipples to a straight line
disappearing beneath your shorts
where they swelled with your sex
what’re you staring at you squinted
nothing turning away ashamed
you can look
you said
it’s not looking that I wanted
