intradescant

you took me to the ground. we enveloped each other and somehow knew the whole world lay beneath us. your earthy lips brushed my skin; our bodies meshed. with interwoven fingers we found javelinas in the clouds and your arizona anecdotes became my first flush of l-o-v-e [and it felt velvet-soft, like a starless midnight sky above a forest of grapefruit trees]. a rose from my corsage lay silent on your dashboard as the winding country roads led you home, and meanwhile i returned to the very spot where our romance took its roots. the grass still lay flattened, an imprint of our lazy afternoon, our mark left on the world, us. a mir