wind's cool lips envelop and chill
protruding listeners, speckled stamps
on crinkled noses
or sun-bit, stacked vertebrae

dabbing each one, I count the
anatomical stars, fibers of you
glancing over with the brim of
my own beginning, parted just so

maps unwind, sighing deeply
but robustly seducing the depths
of our curiosity, condemning