The Air Between Us Warms

The Air Between Us Warms

The air between us warms

and slides down my spine

soft as twilight bleeding into the morning sky

yet sets every inch of me burning

like blue flames that glow and lick slow

I lean closer, lips brushing yours

inhale the hypnotic brew

of your skin at dawn—

rain-soaked earth

My tongue finds the smooth, mellow dew

rolling on your lower lip

then lower still—

sweet, slick, and trembling—

a taste that pinches my breath

Your eyes whisper under my lips

and dissolve me into nothing but longing

Longing leads our skin flushed and slick

and bodies pressed to fuse

into a circuit of pulses and waves