You lean in, lips almost
Touching my ear
Your whisper
Humidifying my hair
And every one of my
Individual molecules
Strain toward
You
All of me aching
To get closer
Every drop of water
That makes up
Me
Tries to bead on
My surface
I have to use my
Higher brain
To control the
Reptile part
To remain civilized
Against my body’s will
It reminds me of playing
In the garden as a child
The irrigation water
Rushing past cornstalks
Washing iron filings up
In the Colorado sand
I could gather scads of
The black, hairlike filings
With a magnet
Held inches away
They would leap
Through thin air
Pulled helplessly
Just like me
To you
