touch down

on every millimetre of your surface

your toes dependent, depending, a wild family

of moons, your soles scrawled

 

with messages about the limits

of divorce

and divinity

 

and up your legs which are more memories

than travelling companions, as long as they

should be

 

responsible, their beauty catalogued,

their genius to

walk, but first,

 

a pink brown lack

of discernment, then blandness, and forward to

glistening disorder

 

all these hectares and I had not yet found

a blemish

wild I cried,

 

kissing your absences

and profoundly

asleep

 

to everything

on the other side

of your skin