walking with mermaids feet

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Monday, January 03, 2005

Salsa

My arm against skin along arm
Moving against eyes on body hips
While wet with sweat against skin
My eyes play on feet
Not to give away into eyes
Lashed deep brown

Where I turn too fast against the distance of other arms

I come back warm to your chest

This play like that before
The relinquish of control
This play of heat
Dance where skin touches skin
You, a man
This play of bodies moving together
Against skin, sweat and beat
Feet pheromones against the step
Beat flicker and signal of eye
Moving against hips
legs arms breath clothes wet
Moving with the play of tension

I turn too fast against the distance of other arms
To come back warm against your chest