Opal Palmer Adisa, Between Us & Angles (2 poems)

        BETWEEN US we meet where the river runs into the arms of the sea ripe and full as autumn moon just a glance sends shivers up and down our spines it is all funk between us brash and beatific fingers always discovering sensory curves sweet watermelon on a summer night fervor connect us geography of Caribbean islands brown skin against desired flesh ANGLES sometimes i feign sleep just to watch you exercise i image insinuating myself in all the curves of your body to be the air that surrounds you even across the room i taste you green as kiwi i am more intimate with the smell of your flesh than the taste of my own mouth perhaps this is the movement from lust to worship

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