Layered Fragments, Becoming Whole

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Sundown, Black Walnut Creek

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Feather light threads brushing against skin  
Cotton drags, traced by loamy lips  
swirling misty daydreams  
falling into space 

Like honey pooling into combs  
Sticky thoughts, warm and hazy 
Spread unannounced,  
capturing you  

My vivid amber held in an icebox, sealed shut  
Until the armored latch flips  
in the soft thud of black walnut fruit landing on grass  
rolling down a steep hill  
to stop at the crossroads of liminal space  

So green,  
so very green. 

Not Ripe. Raw  

Holding stone fruit, overwhelmed  
soaked in scents of citronella and pine,  
oils lingering on fingertips  

The sky consumed the sun,  
the moon’s pearly sheen gleams into focus  
hanging on the weave of the sky, beholden to none  
Sometimes turning vivid crimson,  
weighted in passion 
Then pulling back  
crumbling --  
stars  

Stolen kisses 
the way you occupy my senses,  
in every quiet moment  
hollowing out reality