dirty words

i want to write dirty poems    

for you     about you     to you

i want to fill them     with four-letter words

to make you blush     or squirm     or gasp

to remind you     that we have bodies

and that bodies     have desires

and that sometimes those desires     surprise us

bodies responding to words     thoughts

let this poem stretch out     along these desires

find a way to insert itself     into the conversation

let each line whisper     into your ear

breathing softly on the heart’s     skin

the skin awaking to this     surrender

each word     entering us     embeds

the scent of encounter     and exchange

the taste of your skin     in my mouth

the weight of your body     in my mind

the wonder     of what words can do