She Dances

I did not want to bring you into this song

But alas, here you are,

Dancing at every turn of my tongue.

Well dance then, my love.

Dance till I am breathless,

Then fill me with the breath of your kiss

So that I might sing again.

Each slow surrender of your curve

To the shadow

Is an appeal for more,

And the undulation of your hips

As you twirl

Is the deliverance my soul has been asking for.

Between the depths of me

From which the music springs

And your immaculate skin,

There is no distance.

In this ineluctable fire

That we call life,

We burn together—

My song and your dance

The smoke that rises
Into God’s dominion.