Blue

Contributed by Karly O’Loughlin

Your lips, these sweet entryways for me to slip inside.

The way my bone marrow longs to be sucked dry;

and your hands, these warm cradles that cup the jawline of my reckless spirit.

Drowning out the wild in me in a feverish whirling of smoke and steam.

Fabric interlacing between flesh, skin rubbed raw against bone, pressing, pressing, deepening my curves and eroding sharp edges until I am a smooth stone in the palm of your riverbed. Quenched entirely in blue; a universe of you