ON MY SIDE, LIGHTS OFF, NUDE.

Liquid crystallizes into igneous rocks
until erosion
carries fragments, small monuments
depositing waves of salty sleep.

It's just another burial
pushed underneath Earth's crusted surface.
This eternal turning away
from external could be a result of pressure

or temperature expressing
temperamental cycles of change,
metamorphosis melting magmas erupting
before I ask, 'what position is best
for sleep?' and you reply, 'on my side,
lights off, nude.' I want to talk

about flushing skin when opposites
attract and you ask me what I mean.

Sometimes there's a need for deeper geology.