Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Lost at sea (2015)

 It is never real, still it feels real when I carve it out in my mind, not quite a memory of how soft her breasts felt when I brushed against them, how tender her lips tasted when I snuck a kiss, a memory popping up at those moments of most need, the depths of night, the half dreams, dreaming of her around me as I go deep to feel her from the inside out, rocking the boat until – a memory or wish – we come to the edge of sinking.

I have no life preserver to keep me/she/we from drowning. Perhaps I don’t want one, needing to immerse myself in her warmth until I can’t come up again, my brain lost in a fog with no lighthouse to guide me back to solid ground.

Maybe, I want to drown, to lose my way, to no longer be able to catch my breath. Maybe all I ever wanted was to get lost at sea with no way of finding myself, with no desire to be anywhere else.


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