Sea Skin Salt

On your toasted body
Crystal dust, glittering
In the creases of your eyes,
The lines, the years drawn permanent.

Let me see you.

Inroads of time,
Riverbeds drawing deeper waters,
I drown,
A finger tip trace.

I memorize you.

Gems crushed
In scar,
In wrinkle,
In story.

Let me hear you,
Again and again.

Quilted songs,
Scores sewn together,
Rising and falling,
Rising and falling,

I taste you.

Bitter
Sour
Sweet
Salt