Entwinings
I lie awake
your breathing soft on my neck
tangling with my hair
tracing my ear
Warm feet enfold
one another our arches and
toes commingling with
tender care
You stir quietly
covering my hand in yours
twining our fingers one by one
together
Our skins instinctively seek
ways to wrap and melt a little closer
touches inspiring sighing caresses
two as one
Talking Tattoos
The hummingbird graces
her calf from ankle to knee
ready to lift up in swift flight
with each step she takes
His snakes wind around
and around his arm and across
his back to shoulder and slithering down
embrace his wrist
She walks through the door of my shop
on the first spring day and
sweaterless reveals a
jungle of tropical flowers
The triskelion at the base of
her spine is only revealed
to one who can be trusted
to honour all of her
She has endured the sacredness
of days long ceremony
claiming her Samoan lineage
from limb to limb
He wears bracelets of
his children’s names
each one locked on his arm
with links of hearts
Her geckos peek over her
shoulder from behind her back
and around her neck I swear
one blinked at me
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