Miami Sonnets

There were Tequesta homes with limestone souls ten thousand years ago Gator and crocodile have considered eachother since then,. and now, too Hardwood hammock sat, knees to chest,, rocking, lulled and giggling, washedby the moon, washed by the wind Did they liken it to a mouth as they canoed from river to bay--did they find themselves the words? Eventually,. mangoes won't wait--they'll leap and paint the sky together, a flock, a reminder to pick and savor each one. I feel you when the shaded path is damp, when the drops from leaves keep time and the duff dapples my face, meets the pungence of my tears-- forever sorry I ever went away. Loving you hurts like sunburn but every day, I take these red stripes, and every night, I shiver and secretly smirk when you rub me with poe vera and exasperate what-were-you-thinking you breathe golden fire into metalglass giants, Z roseate wings astoundingly throw the sky : pink violet lush bloom; is the sun blowing is to Yemaya when she sets? #47 we all blush be stolen and had and eaten and enjoyed? have tried. Words fail us and you flail and dream. Who are we? Do we ’ you in our sleep? Can you afford we and give anymore pity. We've stolen