entangle tango

Photphotograph: Aijaz Rahi/AP

Loosening fibers 

weaving threads anew

over and under

and all around the very thought of you.

all of me amounts to a handful of words,
some fleshy magenta and titan buff 

my cup is empty
am I enough 

two magnets swivel and pull

in a dancer's field without resistance 

our kiss is but a shadow blister
penumbras shudder and sway
our kiss an elemental twister

penumbras shudder and sway

mano a mano

with you without you tonight I dance

palm to palm
alone but not quite

meet and push in fractal light

I became the sail on your craft

and you blew your breath into me

and we moved and leaned into the wind

we became the candles' flames

dancing and flickering between planes

I held the moon over my head

and handed it to you 

sun in eclipse cycle is new  

read my heart

in your quiet phosphene light

I became the questing crow bringing back 

the blackened unwritten lines

danced awake and alive 

breathe life into the candle
breathe life into the sail 

we became shapeshifting crows following signs

loosen these fibers

build this muscle to be

over and under

and all around the very thought of me

like smoke through a keyhole you curl and flow

dreaming of the dream you called to you

my gravity pulls your javelin home
our kiss a shadow blister
penumbras shudder and moan