Book

i am a fast reader
but if i were to read you,
I would read you slowly

i would run my fingers
down the curve of your spine
and fall in love
with the way
you open in my hands

i would savour everything

i would read the introduction
and the preface
and the author’s notes

enjoying the anticipation
of waiting
for the first chapter

in the same way
i watched you one time
taking little bits of coffee foam
onto your taste buds

i would take your syllables
into my mouth
trying them out
in delicate
whispers between
my lips

if i were to read you,

i would lose myself
so completely
in your deep
descriptive
passages

that for that night

you would
become
my world