Elemental

your eyes are parched blue

  a sky amidst the thickset trees

       your words are seaweeds 

           fresh as limes in my japanese cup  

               and why am i breathless

                  when   i   see   you 

              drilled down to the elements, 

           you are 65% oxygen

       & 18% carbon 

  & 10% hydrogen 

& 3% nitrogen 

  & 1.5% calcium 

     & 1.0 phosphorus 

         & traces of minerals    

             found in rocks & trails by the lake-

               you  have  no   roots 

                 nor wings to anchor your moorings-

             you can slip through my

        fingers like the eel or disappear 

     in a flash of elephant's rage

or rust cold in the depths of sunken ship-

but    you   come 

   every     morning

       hungry for each rush & pull, 

          fascinated with

              sun's play on the sands,

                    wind's drum on the conch's belly-  

                       beyond bones & rags of our flesh,

                   we tangle spineless

               and the sea 

            cradles us, weightless, size of the planet    

        this love

     a mere drop in canvas of endless mass   

   but it's precious dew

on our lips

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