Love Poem: drunk on fire
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Written by: Paige Hind

drunk on fire

Your seawater stirs in me where fire balances high on oil
You clasp my candlefire, wick's motioning coil — 

A sweating kind of missing
A burned open kissing

The glass shared between us two
Flames in our faces as we move

To the synchrony past
Our dressing these masks

These temperatures rising in veins of you and I
God, brief tourniquets in time — 

Where I drown my highbrow in your heat
This hard body now heartbeats

This translation
My intoxication