reaching for a place to pivot

This is wonderfully sensuous and sensual. That refrain - "tell me again, love" - is very effective in its direct address and the way it highlights the need for affirmation; if anything, it's under-used. I like how the peaks of heightened emotion intensify into alliteration and assonance -

"bone egded barrier and

my everflexed breath burns red to run riot about your aching contours".

This weave of consonantal and vowel repetition is both intricate and fluid.

I stumble at "copper strings of verity" but maybe I've missed something. Accomplished writing...Rgds.,Alan.