Eyes bath ...

I jump back out

                                        To that same cradled,

                    Swelled discontent

                               Twitch-quick when

                   These pins dart into me,

                                                           Doc: let them stay.

(that shaking glint –

                    I swear that I

                                 Am fighting

                                        Myself to stay in it.)

                               So real, too real

                       At first to lie

In long – ice bath

              White, those clear

                          Crystal-cracking eyes play

                    Deeper than they

                              Touch, quicker than

      They move, sharper

    Than they seem

(sliding up leg skin, smooth).

                   Around & through

                    (all you do &

                All I tremble

         Feeling). Move

     Into the bath you make.

       Tell me I dream

   The loud cold worse

    Than it is: that

 It heals what

Swells. Ground me with your smile.

  Spin your tendrils

Around my skin:

  Make it tingle.

Make me crawl

Up into me again.