Touch
In the steam, you disappear. I feel your presence only by knowing. You sit before me until you vanish; hot clouds dissolve us into vapour. Your strong sensuality, like a sensate Zeus, yet you become a phantom. Until I am alone. When the hot breathe of air presses in on me your hands rest on mine, our knees touch. Two figures of naked skin streaming as the steam subsides. It was in the room you built, this womb of steam from which we emerge wet and hot into the cold air of the welcoming night.
Rapture
We are clothed in the streaming truth of
the night sky, its melting snow.
May you and yours have good health, much happiness, love, joy, peace, hope, and the blessings of the Muse in 2007 and beyond! Have a very Happy New Year.
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