In this secluded cove
the sea is calm tonight,
bubbling bursts of your wet doors to open
frothing within firmament of
where neandertal man first
made love to emoji-stricken woman
Pray tell, kiss my burning lips like ashes
can you hear the hym(e)ns from forgotten villages?
Slide your body between my skin and sand
let my fingers dig the deepest moat,
It will only be the tide which washes fingerprints away
Tell, pray, lights from fishermen’s cottage
reel your panties to staged ankles
only moon’s shutters film me entering you,
Somewhere, overhead, a jet cries
One hundred nights of negligee
the reddest will burn the longest,
hold the pose, straps tangled in seaweed,
bite your name into my neck
scratch the air where our breaths never touched
and tell all pirates we have boarded their ships
On morning’s arrival
crime scene was undetected,
save imprints of shotgun shells unexploded
