V // opium summer

Sunlight collects in pools upon the leaves
As I watch you coalesce
Into fractals of
Foliage &
Feeling-

Forlorn flowers
Wilt within
The memory
Of blossom

Tangled in a heap of dry, dead leaves
I lap at the surface of an opium dream
Severing blossoms from
The tree that blooms
When two bodies
Meld together

Quietly undressing in
A wilderness of stars
Your body becomes
A shrine amidst
The rotting

In a whirl of wind-swept leaves
I watch the waves unfurl
Before the glittering expanse
& in the absence of
Your self-mirroring
Otherness
I replace
Your love
With chemicals