-ingly (a tonal drawing written in poetic form)

*-ingly

(on into one another)

you are here with me

long before you come

and I am holding onto you so close

the warm moisture of your breath

is gently washing and massaging my face

and I’m hearing the drumming in our bosoms

pouring one into the other

 

I am talking with you

here in the mirror at dawn

at work in the dry spaces of the day

while walking alone in the evening

when the air is clear

and generous with its wisdom

and your soft round browns

are beginning to explode in me rubbing raw nerves

with sensuous brushings and nourishing words

delicately etching in tracings of your smile

and I am beginning to come to you

 

the taste of you is here everywhere

my mouth my stomach my eyes my ears

on the ends of my fingertips

spreading as oceans boundlessly

enslaving my thoughts

to the smooth melodious musing 

of  sagacious African drummmings

of ancient Savanna Tomes

we’re dervishly whirling and twirling

warming each other as best we can

in this bubbular pocket of rented things

framed in cold and lonely sounds

 

by the time you have come here with me

there’s so little to be seeing

you’ve been consuming me for so long

only open and naked pores are left . . .

your eyes are pouring quietly into mine

and whispering in native tongues

tones sunging in us for so long

and now we’re overflowing

in the urgings of torrid new hungers

savagely grounding us down and

enfolding us in short orgasmic spillings
and we’re continuing to becoming to us”

 

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