hands & holding

1)

hands & holding

tongues & clit

go well together

the way

the sun kisses the ocean at dawn

you have fallen

from the inside

of laughin congas

i hear you smilin

in the tunnel

women glissade

from tree limbs

their hips are so glad

to see you

2)

in the night/ ochun’s candles

make ether-glow waves

thru the hairs on yr stomach

i have spoken to stars

confined to black holes

from the milky way

they want to fall round you

i am envied by ladies

brighter even than the sun

3)

you were curled

under the window

like kittens at mykko’s tits

some visitors

took you towards the true rainbow

you slept

eyes wide water soft

i sit at the end of the rainbow

makin gumbo in a pot of gold

4)

a trinidadian woman

tells me a hot-blooded man

dances like slow winds

in haitian halls/

yr touch is firm

like roots to soil

5)

i cannot speak

yr eyes have

stolen my tongue

only knows

to move from yr lips

to yr thigh

From nappy edges