Somewhere between your chafed fist
and my face,
I see a more genuine you
—no lies, no polish,
all honesty—
And I begin
wading through feelings in the air
coming off your skin:
anger not at me,
fear not about me,
distractions not by me.
In that moment,
I love you.
And you become vulnerable:
Predictable
in the path of your eyes,
the reflex of your twitches, the
tempo
of your chest.
I guide you gently to the ground,
you making many noises
that sop into
my fingers like a hum.
And being so
with your soul,
I expand my center,
rise from earth (
which my toes breathe through
like root-ends).
I look at you
from the back of my skull,
from behind my mind,
from a place where we
are so small as
to be the same.
And I
strike you
to shake
us free.
So you cry, and relax
into a peace.
And if someone had asked you,
in that moment of clear,
“A violent strike?”
You'd
have said,
“Not
the least.”
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