POEM: SOMETIMES WHEN I HEAR THUNDER, I THINK OF YOU

photo by Alex Lear

 

Sometimes when i hear

 thunder, i think of you 

 

 

your shuddering

intensity

 

shaking me

 

like embracing

rumbling

summer thunder

 

          the lightening

          of your spent smile

          tenderly tattooed

          into the hollow

          of my neck

 

the feel of you

beneath the pulsing

rain of my rhythms —

 

          rocking

          like waves

 

          wetter

          than water

 

—kalamu ya salaam