Desert Love Story

on nights id dream of you love
we are wendy and the lost boys
all rolled up together into one
cuddle puddle

waiting for your return
playing pirates with our best selves
and our darkest shadow runaways

sewn back and thrown in flight
with a thimble-full of dust
dancing in the neon firelight
with my camp in rainbowed tow

we flicker

chant like stories told
breathing deep
blown inside platos cave
beneath the gold-veined earth
beneath the oldest wisest tree
living livewire

between enchanted roots
bounding through hot lava
bouncing on the pillowed rocks
lying on a lily pad

inside mermaid cove

cartwheeling in the grass
tumbling running

wandering free
until we hear your cackle call

home

swinging from your branches
fireflies and fairies fly
like flaming embers in the sky
fluttering back and forth
frittering like a carnival cake