The Women in my Dreams Don’t Kiss

We lean into each other’s hands like doves. Like two branches of a tree won’t touch for months but suddenly grow into each other until their trunks are fused. Like the sun, every moment, an atom, an apple, sliced open until there’s enough heat to feed us both. Her hand like a quarter, left by the bubblegum machine, the video store I went to as a child and the perfect break of candy between my teeth. My teeth. We stand apart and the ground erupts. Pain is another word for pore, pour, it’s pouring. Rain breaks heat like breath. The day sighs and it’s the ocean’s breath between us, wet and alive, leaning in, leaning in, longing for a form before it disappears.