Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Mounting her 2015

 

 

If I put my hands there, will they still be warm, two mountains I feel the need to climb, to reach their pinchable peaks, clutching them so as not to fall off, hands and fingers, lips and tongue, pausing at the top if I’d successfully mounted Everest, the sides as smooth as velvet, the taste of their fountain, sweet in my mouth, a memory of a memory IO can’t even be sure is real, something clinging to me like the tatters of a dream, a wish for it to repeat, never certain of what I touched felt so warm as I recall, or as soft, or tasted a good, ly lips sipping forbidden fruits, even now, even in a dream, a memory I cherish and won’t like go off, climbing to the edge of her as if to the brink of a cliff.

 


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