This Effect of You
It is now measurable -
this effect of you -
by improved
qualities across my skin... /
Sex Over Fifty-four
I had not been woken so
by a kiss
in living memory
I am set alive
And other old weights
have been lifted... /
Below Victoria
A loosened thought
was unexpectedly set adrift
like a sea-wetted sandal
sucked into whisked white foam... /
Coffee?
He walked her to her car because his rare chance – a quite rude assumption – of a kiss could improve Their talk skipped to weather and about recent high rainfall and that expanse of blue sky – those age-old silence fillers They stood facing each other He fumbled under his bravado with a quickened...
Acquiescence
Succumb to her
soft measures - offered
within embraces
and gripped .../
Takeaways
How shall I study
your offered body?
With intimate sight
through my fingertips .../
A Common Spotted Orchid
It is a highly successful
coloniser of wasteland
and not at all in danger
Both my Google Lens
and a quickie Wikipedia
yielded to your knowledge .../