sitting beside you

would you wear that silk chinese dress

I saw hanging in your kitchen

and sample exotic cuisine

with a dizzying twisting smile

and a look that said: I want you

come home to warm bed and warm house

inviting white sheets which call us

falling onto fluffy soft pillows

your glasses I’d remove so gently

from those eyes that bore through

or would it be that tin bath

where I’d place my hands on your shoulders

loosen the curls from your hair

and hold your small lithe body

giving that little sigh that sends shivers

instead peruse your skin not the menu, 

on the small of your back, revealed 

when the soft, deft,

thwack of your racket lifted your t-shirt

my fingers doing a tap dance of joy

      I adore you

a house for one- but a bed for two

let me in and I shall say nothing

to your cat or the atlases on the shelf

    Guide to Ancient Egypt 

like a shadow not even here, I’ll float quietly

my catherine the great

can I carry you in my arms up the stairs

like a dashing knight with his lover

even though you’ve kissed youth goodbye

your soul is as young as mine

wake with bleached-page thighs entangled

and ochre lips that want for kissing

that are coyly bitten when it hits you

what we have done, what we have become

arching your feline back in my arms

slip on your dressing gown with black coffee

and another embrace, at your wooden table

I almost do it all again and there is no trace of man,

boyfriend, husband, partner, I almost laugh

just your daughter’s ballet shoes under my chair

come back soon, my love, she said

Reviews

[Ima]

wow
pretty romantic i have to say !! =D

[sea lily]

wow.
this was insanely good.
romantic and lovely and mffhhhh fairly naughty aha
i loved it. x