Unicorns

I wouldn't have believed what was seen
if I hadn't believed they existed

Right in my own yard
grazing on the grasses
I thought lacked nutrients
it stood there
looking at me
seeing me

The danger I felt as I approached
was incredible
that one horn poised at my heart
but I had to touch it
I had to get close to it's magnificence

When I summoned enough nerve
I touched it
it shifted it's weight
so I removed my hand
then noticed it had moved closer

My happiness
shining on my face
it pressed itself into me
eating from the light between both us
I digested the bliss

then noticed
I was pressed next to a face
my mouth in the hands of pure light
I shifted

the danger I felt
standing next to someone so magnificent
I could not stand to look for long
The greens I grazed
followed the footsteps of this being
and I was satisfied
I looked
I saw a blinding light
and it pulled me
it called my light

I wouldn't have believed what I had seen
had I not believed they existed

Desert Flower

I'm waiting for the rains to come
hidden within
I  breath
I survive
but I wait for the rains to come

Nothing covers me from the blazing sun
my beauty shines in it's rays
then I try to hide beneath the sharpness of thorns
the prickliness of leaves
it's all I have

Child of the desert
I breath
I survive
but I wait for the rains to come

I reach
I stretch towards hands that never pick me
cultivated flowers
planted in humid hot houses
sheltered and nurtured
they grow long and wide
I know nothing of that kind of touch

The hard baked ground is my mother
my father thinly veiled in my bloom
I breath
I survive
but I wait for the rains

The first signs of its coming
in the dampness of the air
I open easy
I wait vulnerable
for the first drops
as they fall caressing me
I open wider
the moment is fleeting
but I glory in the feeling when it arrives

I breath
I thrive


“The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth…she is the only flower on earth…that grows unwatered.”

Kola Boof, Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist and poet

Visual Stimulation

He stands in profile

she stares

her eyes close 

to savor him 

this 

provoking an inner smile

She stares

while he talks

in her mind

she's running her hands 

around the inside of the waistband
and relishing the spilling stutters

She stares

he turns to walk toward her

so lost in her thoughts

she's too late to watch the waistband

hit the floor

Her lips pressed 

into the inside of his arm

he stares

her moans lost in her throat

he stares

he feels the pressure then the wet

She stares

his eyes lost somewhere in his pleasure

she stares
the pulsing and his growl

he stares
she stares

they kiss the sacred kiss

and embrace like lovers losing time

Remember

I remember God
when you touch me
I remember what it's like
to be recognized
deep down in places
I never knew were inside me
I remember why He created me
and pulled me into life

I remember God
when you kiss me
in it I remember a love so real
I forget it
because there's nothing else

I remember God
when we make love
and I surrender so fully
the boundaries of my skin dissolve
and I become immersed into endless

I welcome the little death
Where there is nothing left of me
to remember

Custom Fit

I place my hand over my heart/to pledge allegiance to the fidelity of my commitment/to honor you as you are/ The wind carries whispers of my desire to grow with you/toward you/ in you/ I do not pretend/ I am afraid of you/ Like a child standing/waiting for the big wave/ the fear of being taken over and under/ does not stop me from jumping in/Your voice is like a melody/ I close my eyes when you speak/ to savor you in my ears/ So full of life/ you shine/so full of love/ you expand/ and if ever we make love/ there will no end of it/ I fit you/I was made to hold/ everything a man could want to give/ Tuck me deep within the spaces of your life/ and I'll bend with you.

Galaxy

I watch something fall from the sky
try to trace it back
and wonder what it would be like
to land inside myself

I made the trip
but don't know where I am going
so I don't stop to pick up a souvenir
what I wouldn't give
to touch a true place again

I miss it
I miss it so much
I forget it is inside me
looking foolishly and everywhere
to find what is not lost

I lay down
close my eyes and turn into a galaxy
my face
the sun
my body
space
with an earth between my breast

I see eyes searching for me
I feel their wonder to know my meaning
so I fall from the sky to answer