You are covered in skin

pierced with ink

and as the sun moves in the morning

as the hip rolls across the sheet

I feel your body coming closer to me

I feel your heart beating against my chest

in nameless tattoo

like the rain driving into the forest

drawn across your back

 

Oh

I want to find you

in slow rivers of ink and sun

I want to search the backwaters

of sweat and oil

to bend your back

and

bring you closer to my anointed ache

than anyone before

 

Before my eyes are opened I feel the

heat from your painted skin

tracing already in my mind the dragon

wrapped around your thigh

its head tilted back

swallowing my life.

 

I adore the touch from your fingers

passing my hands across the lady of the tree

tracing the veins in each leaf

my arms falling around you like the tangle of leaves

around your waist.

 

I am tortured by the memory of your smile

the taste of your lips

I am tracking, in my mind

the lines and colors

finding each needle prick

each well of ink

each drop of oil.

 

I am pulling you through me

with the arch of my foot

feeling your nipples passing through the hair

on my chest

kissing your mouth with the mouth of

my desire

my river of want flowing across the

streaks of sun in your back.