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