(i carry your name like spring carries rain soft inside my mouth quietly quietly) you are the body of earth white hills thighs unfolding slow under my hands like dawn breaking over the sea i want to do with you what april does with cherry trees —open you petal by petal until color spills and the wind forgets cold (i go with you wherever nowhere waits my dear and whatever moon climbs rises only because your eyes whispered yes first) love is wilder than forgetting thicker than roots drunk on dark it asks no permission it simply arrives pushing through silence until the world leans close to hear our breathing together your laughter burns orange fire your sleep pulls like tides drawing the moon nearer i am no longer apart from the pulse in your wrist the salt on your skin after we crash wave into wave refusing the shore (and if strangers ask what this is i say nothing words too small for how you remake me dawn after dawn dusk after dusk breath after breath) bloom me back if you choose or let me linger inside your seasons a quiet storm that never ends never ends (i carry your heart with me i carry it in my blooming my blooming)
