Your body is a rainforest I seek shelter from parched and barren air from television-bleached faces from eyes that strip me naked and never see my heart I burrow into your arms a wounded creature going to ground half the oxygen in the world is in your kiss my face against your skin I see birds sun-bursting from the vines

 

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