the bee's knees

I’m dipped in love that drips down my body like the nectar of the bees

knees

first bite

of electric eclectic fare

it’s not fair you’re so fair

vibrating into a disarray of clouds and sunshine hues

and blues that shade your eyelids and color your shades -

a virtuoso sketch of graphite

strokes of flight so pure you flow through my Brita like silk

with sweat that speckles your breath like a robin’s egg

your skin a fragile shell between my fragile fingers

and i have you in the incandescent grooves of my indestructible fingerprint

i linger

in the absence of your breath that lays on my shoulder

somewhere between a sigh and the faint brush of my hand on your thigh

a barely-there wisp that falls on its side and curls up with its back to the door

i just want you to love me love me like you’ve never loved another fragment of this chaotic cosmos

and i will give you the intangibly soft underpinnings of the inside of my wrist  

for as long as you should know me and a day.