Arousal

Marriage aroused me

long before you leapt

into my life

knocked me down

with over-enthusiasm

panting

breathless
from all that commotion.

The intimacy:

two-across-the-table

watching two touch

tongues

fingers

thighs

At dinner

I watched us

like I’ve watched

so many couples before

high on connection

And even before the lobster melted
on my palate
so did I
in your eyes.

Later, when your lips
were cinnamon sugar,
I laced my legs through you
in order to keep my feet on.


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