Weighted breath lashing the dark and the light
Drawing in colors and shades and glares
Licking up clarity, contrast and bright
Drinks the sweet evening shadow
Laying down cool touches warm soft earth
Wine drunken bed spread all over the sky
Sprinkling her ink into meaningless verse
Inhales the unspoken release
Veil smooths over exposed unrestrained
Wider she opens to revel in the still
Fingerprints whispered stimulate and remain
Overwhelming the eternal empty
Midnight tastes deep bittersweet mouthful
Black silk sliding under over her tongue
Passionate visions bound to blank paper dull
Biting on delicious impracticalities
Until
Lightening air waking hovering by east
Smothering blanket over exhilarating rest
Warming and burning interrupting the peace
Choking out mesmerizing moonlit glow
Dim grabs and gasps and holds her last breath
Blistering dawn mocks her vulnerable poem
Enlightened decrees only lead to death
Exhale, expire my dear shadow
Cindy Koch 