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It’s been so long since I felt you in my body.
Since I sensed the engine of your atoms revolving in mine.
 
Since I held the snowy breast of the moon with your hands
And suckled her with your lips.
 
Your dreams revving in my head
Have floated wingless into the night.
 
Dandelion spears skirting heaven’s silvery steps-
 
I ate the wisp of you as wafers. The
White wheeled sacrament roots in the roof of my mouth.
 
I walked among the wildflowers
Hoping I’d catch you pirouetting in the fields.
 
The red summer dress I loved tousled in the yellow light,
Knees smudged with dirt, and
 
The basket of your arms full with flowers- but
The sun that sat in the small of your back has set.
 
Night kneads into night
And The stars lie heavy on my chest.

I no longer taste your lips in the space your words fell-
No longer sense your lithe body in mine-

©DiCicco Cosentino