22 October 2012

I Would Explore You

I Would Explore You


I would explore you
A deliberate and slow descent
As would a marinaut depths beneath the waves
Your atmospheres multiplied upon me and
Compounding with each breathe the measure of
A void which has no emptiness so
It does not pull one within it apart but compacts instead
With each breath you return the measure
I take of your pneumatic spirit 

I would explore you so 
As what is beyond just beyond fingertips
Stretched moments before climax of
Fatal intensity
So confines to vision grappling in time
What only imagination may touch 

So too would I explore
You and discover the motions of
Shadow upon your body between breaths
Played upon breast and collar and clavicle
Textured under cool fingers and hot breath

I would explore you
Texture you in those explorations and
Record in memory so deep it can never
Again be brought forth in any greater
Manner than a shudder of my own body

I would explore you 
And repeating those textures once endowed
In deed and in motion I would set out
From no homeland to which I would return
Uprooted and forever light upon you
Will your hot breath soften me to subtlety beneath your
Own textures of recollection or will you recall me 
When you shudder