Spread toes on
moss-covered stones
smiling welcome rains
silver slipping-
and soaked

and i dove,
because with you
diving is divine.

Breath, not to hold,
but to float-
smothered in you,
where heaven slept
i kissed your arm inside,
and pale-

and i swam with you
because you swim
the same lengths as me,
stroking.


Hair as shiny black eels,
too loose to strangle-
but yet,
in it up to the neck,
and then some-

and i go down with you
because with you is
peace and sin,
submission.