I forget your soft pulling mouth and below
the luring grin it holds
Your all-browned features,
and the way I drown in them
Prickly bubbles, breaking with warmth and steam,
splashing my insipid shins
Icy tree tears cuff below our newly sunburned eyes
onto the lips of my collar bone
I forgot how my underwear detained the chemicals,
took to the pool as blood takes to white
and became soaked
mopping and sticking to my skin
The furthest tips of my silver hair
like a mirror to the stars, curling on my shoulders
Now I get the shivers, I can remember those
But I forgot the senseless talk of the universe
we sat under and looked up
The winter wind scratching our bare summer thighs
and the crisp smell of your mother’s snowy garden
Feet cold, they turned hot and carelessly running
to the playground illuminating the black, I forget
It was careless because I was with you
your russet body holding me in,
our toes always just gripping the verge
Undisguised
*-MJS