unmet

missing
kiss: unmet need the weight
of oceans
just inside that little cave
of you, like e. e. said, the
street of you, M o v i n g

winding, deep, eleva
ting skin and earth to
ether, either-or and
and, becoming a
single lane of traffic
oncoming and go
ing recentr
ing memory around
pretty limbs

enclosure of lips and
shoulder, claws smooth
from scratching surf
ace water,
fingerprints em
bedded now up
on my hist
ory

© 2012 Tahminah Zaman