by Samantha Cramer

Take care, beloved:

 

It is powerful, 

to be touched gently

by a thing not 

meant

for gentleness

 

my redshift hair

this blackhole heartbeat;

ravenous and consuming-

knowledge 

joyfully eaten;

 

apple and ozone and

ironrich nebula on the 

tongue

copper and 

cinnamon

cartiledge and salted 

marrow

 

(what is it-

to be loved in a way

that matters?)

 

Sigh love into my mouth like benediction

hold it there, hungered 

and greedy

A feast of all I know 

and won't 

forget.