i carry your name like spring carries the first warm rain inside my mouth quietly (quietly) you are the body of earth white hills thighs unfolding under my hands like dawn breaking slow over the sea i want to do with you what april does with the cherry trees —open you petal by petal until color spills everywhere and the wind forgets how to be cold (i go with you) wherever nowhere is my dear and whatever moon rises is only because your eyes said yes first) love is more wild than forgetting thicker than roots under stone it does not ask permission it simply arrives like roots drunk on dark water pushing through silence until the whole world leans in to listen your laughter is orange fire your sleep moves me like tides pulling the moon closer i am no longer separate from the pulse in your wrist or the salt on your skin after we crash together like waves that refuse to remember the shore and if strangers ask what this is i will say nothing because words are too small for the way you remake me every dawn every dusk every breath between) bloom me back if you want or let me stay inside your seasons forever a quiet storm that never quite ends (i carry your heart with me i carry it in my blooming
