Checkerboard chastity

Magenta shards of daylight squeak by the partition
in my window and silently crawl towards the pores
of my face and enter without a trace of inhibition, closing
the door behind them and dwelling in my cheeks, brewing
a miniscule fervid passion for all things vitamin-C and streaks of
yellow blowing through lashes and tweaks of polaroid film
denoting shaded black tights and wrinkly eyes laughing between
serene moments of infinite, child-like bliss, crinkled smiles
curvy and near-bellowing with the hoots of a game played
between friends of lovers and loving platoons of crooked fingers
placing cloth on top of winking bangs and blessing Moloch
with the curling lips pecked at rosy cheeks and giggling madly
for the procession of possessive benefactors whose
feet dangle near the parading infants and discuss work
and toil, unknowingly stepping near the bliss they hoped
to regain with spritz and gobs of lotion nearly burned into
crackling flesh, we chuckle as their varicose pains simmer
on grills of denouement, and we bask in felicity under the
separation of youth and adult, bathing in pools of sweetened
wine and mulled dreams that haven’t yet bordered on the caustic
and still remind us of chasing balls onto asphalt and scraping
knees in a fall, with physical pain but the joy of a memory
I see her tangled hair again and again when I wake from the musky
sun and breathe in air that tickles my lungs with hope and destiny
I see all her essence divided among parcels of household supplies
and the corners of her smile spreading out against a joke or a song
I whisper into shivering ears that nearly burst with giggling
and the sententious factors deign that negro threads of dawn that
spread from the base of her waist to her toes are improper but she
flaunts them with the curious turn of phrase that reveals inhibition but
shows the stalwart courage of the not-yet-brazenly humble in beauty
Pulses quicken as the rays continue beating against a rumpled pillow
and as I linger in bed for more thoughts of entangling in her soul
All the more I need it