This is the place unknown to anyone

“This is the place unknown to anyone, where the names of ships and stars drift out of reach” –W.S Merwin

your shoulders protrude

like the bow of a ship

calling me home

to you,

the avocado butter

of your skin

and the freckle just below

your right eye.

i can never contain you

you and the easiness,

the way you have with me is like

the ocean of wind

on a summer night,

the way you enter

like moonlight

seeping in

and creeping up from my toes,

so intimate

as if we were born knowing.

we sit

in that heavy darkness,

entangled in each others blood

and dreams

searching our ribcages

and crooks of moons

for poetry.

i am falling with you

into the depths,

that space

without language,

our eyes wide and silent

sitting under the sky of our hearts

threading

the stars together.

i love you--

breathlessly,

and we are made whole

again.