apollo one

you fear drowning

but i am water

that can create life

that is it found there

in your mouth

in you

in me making love to you

by just being

close to your flowing fire

your smile

that grows flowers

in hopes of one day being under

your nose and feeling home again

*

i don’t

want you to be mine

like an owned thing

but instead have you

make me make me

and to see you as yours

in the eventual

creation of us

*

cheat on the sun

with the moon

sticking your fingers deep

into the wells where only

men bounced to leave

and claim it as theirs

where it is said that cows come

with their milky kind breasts

to find meaning

and where there is no water

though all on puddles are pulled to it

even you

crying from the loss of the light

when it was always the moon

silent and battered by the universe

that was radiating against the darkness

for you