speechless -

- breath blushes blue between us ... you ask the question THAT question so, you're requesting rationality, lucidity when you stand before me dressed in pure starlight ONLY starlight, with moon drops in your eyes splashing your coy smile like rare south sea pearls damp from our cool evening swim, you shiver dancing drops of dazzling diamond dew shimmer like dermal constellations turning your sublime surfaces into an ocean of sprites - haute couture by the Cosmos precious few and precious, times like these when those definitions of love made in youth - those confusing impulses of the emotional and physical swirl and spin and wrap me like fleece passion, desire, beauty … and love spun together like soft cotton candy - sweet and sticky and warm on the lips melting together with THAT question, THAT concern but what IS true? what defines "reality"? what will last beyond this intense need to have you to know you, taste you, every tender centimeter every curvaceous, sublime, secret spot? you stand there, perfectly imperfect, pert and saucy form covered in tiny bumps of enticing invitation your body’s braille, pleading steam rising into the cool evening air like a sigh from your skin waiting for my answer - my affirmation but I am mute ... entranced ... numb … - I will let my body … speak. ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Splash" Poetry Contest, Kai Michael Neumann, Judge & Sponsor. ~ 4th Place ~ in the "2019 Poetry Marathon Mile 24" Poetry Contest, Mark Toney, Judge & Sponsor. ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Screwed XVIII" Poetry Contest, Rob Carmack, Judge & Sponsor. (No cliche's via PS Cliche Finder). ~ 10th Place ~ in the "Best Free Verse In April - Not For A Contest" Poetry Contest, Laura Loo, Judge & Sponsor.