My velvet summer leaf, I beg you cup my cheeks with layered sheaths,
And obey you, please me so to please you so.
Your waxy shield melts to my hands.
One caress and the sun is yours for the air making.
Sleep inside my pores, arresting palms shaking trees.
Noose a summer’s dream inside your viny paw.
And whisper green song to the tune of daylight pause.
Make yourself a bed of light and hide us, lovers in noon-tide sheets.
In the gaze of the other 