the butterfly of love emerges from the cocoon of desire
(for anyone & everyone who has experienced how love
unpredictably comes when and wherever it does)
the husky electric dark of your tender laughter thrills
like the incendiary potency of lightening shards sharply,
silently illuminating the distant tops of far off mountains
the slight chill of rain aroma soft hangs hopefully within
the intimacy of our speeding car as your charcoal shaded irises dart
between desert road and the open emotions of my expressive face
outside's swift night wind sings elegantly against the taunt drumskin
of my inner ears and as your slender brown hand, never quite landing,
briefly dances across the surprise of my thigh, i turn to face you
and even through seriously blurred eyes i can see the intensity
of your radiant glow, a heavy trembling indigo night flower heaving
petals fully open beneath the quiet undress of moonlight -- thoroughly
moved i do not speak except to reveal the shiny of two happy tears
slow weaving sweetly through the salty tangle of my masculine beard
—kalamu ya salaam