Their heads are in the clouds.   They seem to float with eyes content staring into cell phone screens, soaking up dopamine like hummingbirds hovering above nectar.   I watch them, witness them on streets, benches, trains.   Their moods are contemplative as they wander from here to there.   Wandering down streets, meandering above the ground.   They roam like clouds, seemingly unaware of...

Before this flame  I fall again,   Into shaken bliss,  Adrift, trembling, consumed   Begging to be hostage  Of the current's kiss,   In your carnal heated waters. I long to be covered,  To drown  In this dream of fire,   I ache with pleasure, Unchained, unbound.   Before that flame  I rise again,   Into trembling bliss. Awake, breathless,...

A quiet heat lingersbeneath the river’s hushthe spark you kindledmoving through my skinI follow the pullof hidden currentsdrawing me closerto where the flame beginsRiver of heat Now a pool of sweat A fire lingers We can't contain To surrender in...