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light touch

my ...

fingers are
tactile moonbeams …
and like that porcelain light
I let them dance upon you, bare -
tiptoe across your shy
places with a
delicate (but deliberate)
adoration ...
many, the times they've made
this dermal sojourn
yet each is as if the first -
softer, sweeter, more
sure that the journey is as savory
as it’s delicious end …
each inch, it's own mystery
here-and-there your flesh jumps and
rises as you coo and sigh -
little bumps follow that spread
to the rest of you
like moonlite spattering the sea …
but your sea is mine -
an ocean of tender integument
beneath my touch …
much deeper
and darker
warmer …
and where I
long to …

drown.





~ POETRY AGAINST POVERTY ~

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Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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September 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
A beautifully controlled sensual free verse piece, its breathy fragments and ellipses creating the hushed, unhurried rhythm of touch. The moonlight-and-sea imagery gives intimacy a luminous, tidal quality, while phrases such as “dermal sojourn” and “tender integument” make the body feel both exquisitely physical and reverently mysterious.
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