Wow, So I have my period and I am feeling good. The sun is shining.



underneath the vines
intertwined
like the curls
the tight curls that shaded me
down there
down where
that opening


that men were always trying to get into
fighting to get into
as though the uglier that they were
as though the cruder that they were
as though the more impatient that they were
the better their chances to



enter



petals and soft
your eye-lashes kiss flowers
your curls have swum in ponds
water and earth and the soft smell of your familiar joy

i know you
i know you when you are peaceful
when you are happy, with me

i know you


their moist invasions
don't thrill you

there is nothing there
in the way
they enter


they slam into flowers
indifferent to the petals that scatter
and all that shaded beauty melts into the scorching sun
and you are gone



just another that tried to enter



this time
i am in love

this time i know
how precious you are
this time
i know exactly how i want to be made love to

i know how
i see you
each petal a doorway into your breath
your truth
your essence, open before me

maybe, i finally understand you
the way that i understood you

before i let them in
and thought that they were the ones that would teach me who you are,
what i am



this time i know
that your petals are the butterflies
the eye-lashes
the sand buckets
red and green and yellow

with shovels
that build castles
and once again
and each time
watch
as the ocean wipes them back into its self

that is the way
that i will take you
into me

sand castles

with petals as shovels

and oceans

i carry you away

way

there is a way

this time

i will watch as the ocean surrenders to the sand castle

and i will wonder

how i ever saw it the other way around

this time

i know the way

my way