FLOWING RIVER

quiet
waters
of my body
begin
to awaken
at the touch
of
warm,
oiled hands,
moving
rhythmically
like lapping
waves
against the bank
as my body,
the river
flows
ever
toward sea.

A sudden
waterfall
of swift
hot strokes
rumbles
over my back
—the momentum
begun.

rolling smoothly
over rocks, fluidly
'round tight
curves,
scented hands
and body
dissolve,
become one.
Each, carrying the other
surely
toward
a buoyant destiny.


Copyright 2000 Donna Thibodeaux