Ivan Jenson

Skin to Skin

This is my skin to skin resolution
to evolve with these primal instincts
to revolve around your moon

and never to accuse you
of black widow tapestry

to keep seeing you
through white wine glasses

to keep touching you with
kid glove precision

to keep prescribing to you
my sea view Cape Cod
capsules

to count on your on time
arrivals and red eye departures

to hearsay things that
are breath mint superstitious

to catch phrases that are
cool breeze complimentary

and to hold them like
hot water in a bathtub

and for now
we love within
the bubbles

Her Full Lips

in time
you will take her full lips
and drain them of their
cherry filling

but now in youth’s terrain
and winter’s grip
you promise only
to chap her smile making
it a cracked ceramic vase

her two eyes
blue roses