2nd level desires

i.

when we are inside each other

breaking light all over the bedsheets 

like watching the water bugs land on the pond 

without wondering what my job in the forest is

for a few hours, we don't notice the distance

ii.

i'm lost, i'm lost, lost to myself

in the woods behind my house

it is glorious and

i am dancing

it is dusk and 

i find my way back

with my ears as eyes

oak leaves and roots 

under each step

still 

i wanna dance with somebody

followed by bye bye bye 

& back again

ii^2.

i'm the first of two twin bunnies searching for their purpose

hopping through the forest, 

asking frogs 

"do i hop with you? but i don't know how to swim"

asking owls 

"do i hoot with you? but i don't know how to fly"

not asking 

what made them happy that day,

or if we can sit 

and watch the water bugs skate together

Why must we be with our own "kind" in order to perceive our own wholeness?

What is our purpose but to continue to be what we are, without justification?

i^2.

your eyes are a different color green

than mine

you don't trust your own smile did 

your smile once lead you somewhere 

you didn't want to go? or do 

you not trust your own happiness?

you do not trust my happiness either and

you are right not to,

i^1.

sex is either a magnifying glass

or a pair of binoculars

the difference is a lens

parsing light through fingers and tongues

we can see each other, 

even when we're miles away

Christie Flemming