George Bradford Patterson II

Caress

(after octavio paz)

Your hands
open the robes of my being
adorn me in a further incandescent nakedness. Your hands
form another body for my body,
light little candles in my heart
which radiates rhapsodies of lotus candle-lights,
dancing throughout the cosmos
to infinity.

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George Bradford Patterson IIis a Ph.D. candidate in Language Education at the University of the Phillipines