the deep breathe

undine

1.

sweet heart-beat--

skittish eyes 

like smooth stone skipping 

across still pond--

those shallow

dips in

to liq

uid

the final

plumb:

sink,

darling

rock.

still barely 

waver--

pulling eddies gentle

like ever-settling hair

underwater:

your mouth, undine, 

murmurs,

patter

nless

2.

underwater

sweet still heat:

moist light 

stayed to drop.

poised in motion--

still while 

thousand cells

impress:

sensation,

that 

lambent

mistress

3.

still sweetness,

the leech of

petty resistance.

drowsy in

your arms--

white-clad

like angels.

go 

under

ether:

your eyes

so sweet

reverse skip, 

less and less

deep.

shell teeth,

sweet lower lip,

in immaculate

red, 

eddying.

the purpose

of this

stillness,

the self-

curl,

ever in

ward

ever

in

war

d

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