Shared Shower

a sweaty mugginess falls to the scent of showered skin our voices that cede to song sweet nectar clean, the heart of touch touch, that lathers compassion in the voltage of erotic energy essence of belonging discarding grime, the brittleness of worry as steam rises, circular bursts, that tap the glass with wet streams to trail skin, imprecisely, criss-crossed on pink flesh like laces of cloud-ribbons our love side-steps the edge of drought to scrub the core of understanding anatomical knowing, seductive like pie no hinges of grim jawed anger our tireless exploration, currents of motion time best spent in the curl of our folds as we shower beneath the tarty chatter of water boundless, breezy like a tonic surge of rain Poem composed May 20, 2021 (Revised January 14/22)