Valentine.

Today is a day for getting back to gritty
we wake up to falling satin
hurried hands
lips made of steel
tooth and iron
we make love
by skipping breakfast

and you are late to work

You are wild with determination
I am again and again
your wild African vine
adorning poison crimson

I want a hundred times
you rise to deliver
I need a million times
soft spoken
hard rushing
deep breathed kissing
and you grow claws
to rise
and bring it to me

You are everything I never asked for
everything I went without
Your arms are chocolate for breakfast
fast around my bending rib
Your smile is sunshine every day
a whole life filled with summer
Your eyes are my own constellations
Your hands ancient trees on my house
and your voice is the wind
beating fast in my heart
every time I long to travel

I touch you on morning
churning oil in my veins
strike a match and
we are one

breath
body
beating heart

we are one

every move we make
together
our arteries sprouting through skin
encircling intertwined hands
with matching wedding rings

I love you.