Simple Matters As Rain And Night Poem by RIC BASTASA

we sit here
on top of this floor

seeing stars
and feeling the touch
of a dark night

through the air
from the sea

you recline as i stand
to go near you
and touch your body
with my lips

we close our eyes
as i move closer

scents of flowers
and tastes of salt and sugar
and these little
sips of something sour
and bitter

our hands move
to explore the
contours of our bodies

naked before the moon
and everything tonight

nature, as always
shall be speechless
to the ways of love

to the manners
of lushing lust

mixed feelings of
the satiated and the
satiator

tonight, yes,
the two of us on this

nocturnal trysts of
outbursts and fusions