Unravel (Audio)

I don’t know the shape of your hands
the weight of your body
or the sound of your laugh
but I feel the pull of you as if
we’ve been orbiting each other for lifetimes

I imagine tracing the line of your jaw
finding the hollow behind your ear
the curve of your neck
and I ache to learn the language
of your skin before I even touch it

I want to memorize the heat
you hide in your breath
to discover the spaces
that make you shiver
to know the secret ways
you let yourself unravel

even apart
I taste you in thought
in the brush of air across my skin
that I pretend is yours
and I imagine
the first moment we collide
knowing that everything
I’ve felt in waiting
is just a prelude

23 thoughts on “Unravel (Audio)

  1. This was absolutely insanely good! This was all one big connection from start to finish! And that ending is by far like icing on a cake for me personally! Wow! I love your gift that you keep on giving! One of your best of the year already! 🎁❤️🙂💞

    • I wanted it to breathe there, right in that suspended moment where nothing happens yet everything is felt. Patience felt like the only honest way to honor the longing, to let it thrum instead of rushing to resolve it. Thank you for your lovely thoughts.

  2. Wow!! I so loved this poem but when you added the recitation it became a shooting star!!!! So wonderful the way you captured just the right cadence, inflections and emotions!!! I think you have found your groove and pace and from the reactions I have read I’m thinking your audience feels the same too!!

    More audios please??? I love to close my eyes and listen to your voice bringing life to your words!!!! Sweet Feelings!

    Bellissimo, Jennifer, Bellissimo!!!! 🎁✨👍💖😁💕🌹
    Chuck

  3. So lovingly written, Jennifer, …and, may I say too, I loved hearing the recital,…as Chuck said, Bellissimo! …and yes, more audios, …I’ve come to believe it breathes more life into the poetry, … 💙

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