I as I

I as you

I as he

I as she

I as us

I as them.

I as Intimacy on Ithaca, then Hydra.

a narrow forest path
where bodies disappear
into green.

only the trace of liquid desire 
that touched the skin
and left its bright seed behind.

and suddenly
the whole forest
sings:

I I I

intimacy without distance
without gravity
falling upward
into the dark.

and suddenly
the whole forest sings:

U U U

suck me into your cosmic embrace.
it is our own magnetism that we face.

oh, at last
we have lost

g 
   r
a
       v
           i
              t
                 y

we

        lost.

                     we lost I.