I rose early to greet my lover
and when it was time for her to rise
I blew a kiss towards the heavens
and the skies blushed as the world awoke.

Liquid darkness dissipates into luminescence
as first light bathes the bowered pathways through a tangle of roses
it settles in the valley of your back
and on the delicate slopes of your shoulders
spreading within seconds
ink bleeding on paper
like the blissful unfurling of seraph wings that fill the horizon.

I can feel the earth pulsing with energy
outside the measured cadences of birds hum and sing and ring
I said to my soul, “be still and be quiet”
just remain enveloped in this consensual hallucination
within the seconds of light that shimmer between two dimensions
as specters of dust dance around your sleeping form
they catch the light and I am bewitched.