Desire in Deep Time

There was never a question

you and I would be lovers.

I knew in the way

of dream knowing that

breath had called to breath

while we slept, apart,

so when we met, your voice

spun deep eddies in my blood,

and your scent put me

in swaying grasses

on a broad savannah 

I have hunted 

many times and

walked at sunset

satisfied and
sweating.