for Karthik <br /> <br /> <br />that salt adheres to the palm <br />proclaiming only this <br />that purchase requires both <br />sweat and the one hidden pearl <br />of scraped touch <br /> <br />much there is in the hand <br />bequeathed; <br />beneath the thigh the grit <br />burns smooth the groove <br />where you lay <br /> <br />tapered fingers flame <br />that these lips may chaff/ <br />chafe more the love <br />from the grain which <br />skin frames from <br />cloudless scansions <br /> <br />Kindled limbs <br />do not go out <br />do not ash hot <br />to powder <br />nor the colder grow <br />though each is made distinct, <br />distinguished, <br /> <br />though each <br />is extended, extinguished in <br />the other's contradiction <br />neither brother or lover <br /> <br />but both <br />be perseverance <br />of palms, <br />of salt <br />Preserve.<br /><br />Warren Falcon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-salt-adheres/
