Bodies

I like hard bodies and soft bodies,

full bodies and bony bodies,

aggressive bodies and yielding bodies,

pale bodies and dark bodies,

direct bodies and coy bodies.

A body is so much all at once

to see, to sense, to touch,

to search for special places,

an intricate cave

explored by dim yellow light.

I could look at bodies all day.

All day I could trace with my fingertips

bodies, your body

the angle of your shoulder

the washboard of your spine

the way your ear attaches to your head

(to say nothing of the way your tongue

goes from soft to hard,

or how your breathing changes

minute to minute

with mine).

A body is a universe,

a lifetime of discoveries

to explore, to share

and we have

so barely begun.