I am heat and sap-riddled
sluggish pulse through skinsack,
breath comes shallow, slow
there is steamheat in my drumthrob
chest, waterheat on my sweatbrow
feet hung limpid over tub-edge
taking in air like a dog's tongue.
the oceanfoam is like skyclouds
i soak in centuries: blueazure like mosaic,
indigo like dye, violet starshape leaks
lavender oils, creamy beads of sandalwood
and ylang kiss my surface like fish.
my soap is pale lilac, the scrubpuff alabaster.
phrases seep from my fingerlips
escape in the saunadamp swampmind
i am heat and sap-riddled, sluggish.
