I bite my lipWhere your sentences begin to lingerI hold my breathWhere meaning turns to pressureI still myselfWhere your words arrive too closeI forgetWhere I end and they impose It is not fireIt is something quieterIt is not heatBut a learned kind of tremorA small surrenderAt the edge of soundA place my bodyKeeps circling around […]

The Orishas carved mountains, struck oceans, shaped the earth with force. And still, nothing grew. They had left her out.   Oshun, golden, laughing, hips like rivers, whose charm binds what power alone cannot. They thought sweetness small. They thought warmth trivial. They did not see that life bends to tenderness.   She came with […]

She walks on the edge of the wind,voice braided with sea and olive,each syllable a spark struckfrom the tinder of longing.   Island-born, where the waves foldlike a lover’s arm,she counts the pulses of heartsas though each beat were a star.   You burn memy limbs betray memy voice falters in the bright airI watch […]

I feel you slipping against the edges of my soul,   slow, certain, a pulse beneath my ribs.   Moments stretch, time folds around the warmth of us,   and I wait   to melt into your gaze, to taste the quiet fire of your being brushing against mine.   The world holds its breath, […]

Reality bends between breath and prayer,   and I feel you slipping into the marrow of me.   Moments stretch, time folds around our tethered souls,   and I wait   to see you fully, to dissolve into your gaze, to find myself   in the warmth of your being.   The world holds its […]