Poetry

 

YOU

by Philip Philmar

 

My sleep is textured with the geometry of your curves,

with the warmth of your flesh

and with the sweet cries from your throat.

 

I lie trembling from the memories your

tongue and teeth and lips left imprinted on my body,

like tactile photographs

developed in the darkroom of my bones.

Runner-up, The Express newspaper love poetry competition, 1997