If Not For Snails: An Accidental Love Song

by Steffi Drewes

Milky moon rings

    orbit our eyes

stand iris to iris 

and after the rain

Puddles double 

    every step

slow touching 

    skin to concrete 

to find more sky

    Sucked in by simple 

swelling mirage

    miraculous antennae

fingertip-flooded memory

bright bumps in the dark

but less than smoke, we

smell wet, bursting

Fertile snails 

slick glistening

    sidewalk strewn and inching

wait

    one by one

each mahogany helix

    we’re plucking

white-knuckled 

    star shards

Stuck

to every surface

kneeling nautilus

now dizzy

bending 

to the sneakers

smooth body-go-rounds

    Mud quivers 

against my thumb, some sucker 

opens liberally 

    stripes to the ground

letting heads roll 

    palms

then cupping gently

My what spiral eyes

    you mascot 

you marauder

half-awaiting

baited rescue

armor undone 

    much harder than it looks

this slow

    this dodging

or did you mean

damp flesh

Saving 

something small

    feels extraordinary

then natural

    mending turns melding

slow grasping illuminates

    a hair on the tongue

every estuary

    cracked lips

    a little on the 

Drink up

    dirty side    

    

all this gushing 

dark gutters

a belly button 

heaped with shells    

or what comes after 

    every sinkhole

my skin

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