[Touched — by Heath Houston]
Slow now, darling, slow, the hand’s caressing path to finish,
touched, we borrow heated skin from the coming fire
as lips pose questions seeking answers, whispered yes.
I am caught by your vermilion bent to gently curving smile,
as you kiss me, wrapped in blooms of flowering citrus,
inviting me to loose the laces of your mystery.
[Overlapping Petals]
In this space, this borrowed time, our unfolding mystery,
we blur the demarcations of our joined lips, start and finish,
until we are overlapping petals in those blooms of citrus,
steeped in the consuming flames of our mingling fires
turning us to memories, like embers, warming our smiles
with the whispered word of our precious pairing — yes.
This is a multi-collaborative project. Overlapping Petals is:
- a stand-alone poem
- the second stanza of a two part collaborative poem between Heath Houston and Hannah Bobannah
- the 4th stanza in the Sestina Kismet Grove from the Sestina Synthetica project on Chalkboard.
