I'd like to get to know you
I'd like to gently knock upon your door and see who answers
I'd like to know if we are dancers you and I
I'd like to see us try because I'd like to get to know you

I'd like to get to know you in a different way
I'd like to take your hand and
I'd like to know your eyelashes against my lips
I'd like to know the contours of your hips
I'd like to trace those contours with my fingertips

I'd like to know the veins flowing up your arm
I'd like to cover the territory of your back with my palm
I'd like to get to know how you speak in your sleep
I'd like to know whether you look before you leap
I'd like to just drop down into the deep with you

I'd like to know the rhythms of your sea
I'd like to know how you might reach for me
I'd like to feel your eyes beyond my collar bone
I'd like to get to know what it's like for us to be alone together in a different way
I'd like to get to know your skin beyond the room we're in and be a capsule in your blood
not just sit here day by day and chew the cud