three shoes in the doorway, five socks on the steps

three shoes in the doorway, five socks on the steps         12/27/00


   the puddle of clothes
   would blush at such mixing
   and tanglements as they
   are found now but to start
   were draped on three and
   the kiss in the doorway
   near the stairs became
   more than a kiss and the
   door open a little for
   the neighbors to stare
   a partially multicolored
   beast half clothed
   or less as it defies gravity
   and encourages levity
   as it kisses and crawls upward
   unbound by a definition but
   full of precision
   in this moment

   stretching and rubbing and
   playing on old lines and banter
   the grasp of handholds random
   and momentarily important and
   then adrift again in sea of bed
   and waves of skin laughing
   while waiting for the seventh wave
   always the seventh wave

   on two breasts
   fawn two sets of lips
   tracing curve and peaks
   and both love nips
   lips ride the rail of collar bone
   as shivers shake the trace of tips
   toward the curve of neck
   and that which draws them on
   a lobe and curl of hair over ear
   and a nibble of lips and eyelid
   fresher than clover and dearer by far

   two hands or maybe three
   it could be six but nobody knows
   how to count right now
   explore the map of the back
   the line of the thigh
   one finds that spot that is
   so ticklish it hurts and then
   the other and then the other
   is the composer upon the
   keyboard line of the spine

   in fully curled whorls
   there are two fingers
   from two hands
   from two people
   tracing patterns
   tapping out morse code
   in sticky tendrils
   searching to find
   not worried about
   getting there soon


Author:
songbird (c) 12/27/00

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