May 17, 2025
More in Poetry paper and words fall in love
paper and words fall in love
ink pools on ivory-skinned
paper waiting
to be filled,
meaning meanders
in line and loop laid
across love’s open page,
desire draws down flat features,
fills stroking supplication
under lamp-light night.
closed and dotted eyes
stretch like cats,
as words imagined
fill margins
and spill onto backs,
lingering liquid and permanent,
shining like stars.
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