Giver of My Name

My lover’s lips drip words of secret hours Wherein our dreams make love to sweetest songs Hymns to our bodies, bathes in nectar showers Slick on the tongue to taste; ours all life long. ‘Forever’s on our mouths, in fingers kept Oaths to the rising sun, our bedded vows Seduced and consummated here we slept Beneath our bough that shields from darkened clouds. Bare to the morning, twins in twisted vine Intoxicated, our own fruit to share Ripe from my treetops picked up where he climbs Sucked to the last, that juice, like robes, we wear. Covet my touch, beloved, have me, claim. You — my better whole, giver of my name.