This week in celebration of Valentine’s Day I am sharing some of my poems offering different perspectives on love. This one speaks to the deep impression love makes on us.
Your lips are lines of a poem
indelibly written upon these breasts,
upon these hips,
like a tattoo or a scar,
an invisible mark I bear
upon my skin.
And when I decorate
the walls of my mind with stars,
those verses illuminate
like phosphorescence
in the glow of black light
and the lingering language
of your kiss
speaks to me again,
a satisfyingly long
and heartfelt ballad
that rhymes in all the right places
and transports this aching body
beyond words,
into the ecstatic agony
of memory.
