Astonishing this renaming of myself.
As the magic man comes to me.
Leading me.
Leaning into me.
Learning me this new language of passion.
Fledgling on this path of unknown sometimes I startle.
A deer in the woods.
A flock of starlings rise in my heart.
Murmurations of love painted across the sunset sky.
Your face in the light.
Center of my attention.
The planes of your cheekbones.
The shape of your eyes.
Curvature of your lips, the smiles dancing there
A minuet of Mozart.
Slain back, surrendered to you, all distance
Drops, shatters, soft, like petals falling from the shaking boughs
Of apple trees.
Caught and cradled.
Through sunrise.
Moonset.
Feathering kisses across my face
Summoning me into velvet darkness where
Stars splatter with spangles of bright desire.
Astonished by you.
Conjured,
I lay myself before you.
Heart splayed and open
Beating like the wings of the birds flashing against
That burgeoning dusk.
Creating patterns of mystery I never
Knew
Abided within me.
I rise then.
Kissed alive.
Anew.
Graced.
By you.
Auntiebubba 