Bare Embers

Bare Embers

You, naked

stretch out on my skin

like a hill bitten by the sun.

The fruit slips, grows, swells,

it's burning. At six in the mirror

you enter me

as the most expectant guest,

simple as a river of light.

You cover me with your man skin.

You, the tongue that runs through my veins

to silence me. You take my eyes off

painfully and give me two other arms

with which to weigh your inner thighs.

Your mouth drizzles on my back.

You scratch my back and write your name.

You talk to me with your bones.

My moan,

the longest sound you’ll hear tonight.

When we are alone, still naked,

when everything is over,

it hails.

The air has just discovered us.