sugar coated...

if I asked you, on a dare
to paint me the landscape of your
sugar coated dreams
would you laugh about
hot pink Italian ice cream cones
mahogany beer from Belgrade
of pale jade Sencha tea
from my own city of doves?
a stranger's lips entice my sleep
where will you make your bed
tomorrow?
my arms do not yet hold
your destiny, Cupid has not united us
with copper tipped arrows
against the bleakness of sad thoughts
alone in hotel rooms
apartments empty of love
where invisible currents might join
our pensive natures
the soft tufts of penned ink words
bittersweet verbs, like tumbleweeds
always in movement
induce my sipping of a midnight blue
cognac, wondering if ochre
is the color of the sheets
caressing your body
and if one day we will share
dreams from our nightly
sugar coated kisses
from twin mallard down pillows



sugar coated...
[2007.20.4...a]