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You caress my palms, kissing the ridges of my knuckles With the sweet tenderness of peaches hanging under the sun. Your tongue is a river rock smoothed over By torrents of stream-water, turned pink by the subtle heartbeat Of escalating pulsations from thumb-tip to chest. Your lips are the gentle puckering catfish upon my neck, Tickling veins like spindle-legged crayfish. Your eyes bore softly into mine like melting rivulets, Blue-rushing, meeting a freckle of green and flecks of hazel, Laid upon me like the blanket I had when I was three, Teasing me like a feather flirting with grasses on the bank. Your fingers embrace the small dip of my ankle, motionless against skin. Your body is a poem, speaking louder than your tongue, Forming sonnets with your spine and simple words, saying “I adore you.”
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Dec 17, 2014
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM UTC
Rivulets
You caress my palms, kissing the ridges of my knuckles With the sweet tenderness of peaches hanging under the sun. Your tongue is a river rock smoothed over By torrents of stream-water, turned pink by the subtle heartbeat Of escalating pulsations from thumb-tip to chest. Your lips are the gentle puckering catfish upon my neck, Tickling veins like spindle-legged crayfish. Your eyes bore softly into mine like melting rivulets, Blue-rushing, meeting a freckle of green and flecks of hazel, Laid upon me like the blanket I had when I was three, Teasing me like a feather flirting with grasses on the bank. Your fingers embrace the small dip of my ankle, motionless against skin. Your body is a poem, speaking louder than your tongue, Forming sonnets with your spine and simple words, saying “I adore you.”
For those who have been in love -- all kinds of it.
emily-schumann
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Dec 17, 2014
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM UTC
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