William (Bill) Wolak [USA]

 

In the Silence Between Love Songs 

I miss your body
sliding over mine
sleek as lightning
with your hips tilted
a little toward delirium.
 
I miss the hint of dawn
in your fingernails
and the dwindling moonlight
of your hair.
 
I miss the arching
of your long back
smooth as a snow heron’s
neck feathers
and your upturned legs
kicking at the ceiling
when I slip my tongue
inside you.
 
I miss your blue eyes
where I lost the sea
and your broad shoulders
pressed against my back
while I dreamed.
 
But I miss you most
in the silence
between love songs. 
 
 
Kisses 
 
I want to explore your entire body with kisses,
kisses thirsty as light, kisses that open the wind.
And I want my lips to excite your shivering body  
with an insatiable delirium that invites more kisses,
 
kisses brief as a smile passing through lightning,
kisses reaching inside you deeper than silence,
breathless kisses that leave your lips still moist with tomorrow,
kisses that arouse the haunted silk of your breasts,
 
kisses that make your scars sing, dazzling kisses blind as ecstasy,
kisses that make you writhe and shudder then squeeze me tighter,
desperate kisses that stun the flesh, awaken the muscles,
sink down into the blood, and course through your tingling body,
 
indiscriminate kisses down your stomach and up your thighs,
kisses like a bouquet of roses sweeping over tempting nakedness,
kisses that polish the swirling whirlpools of your flesh,
kisses long as summer, kisses for beginning a journey.
 
 
The Lover’s Body
 
May your hands
reach beyond dreams
where moonlight
awakens as flesh.
 
May your kisses
seep deeper than rain
into the body’s
pink crossroads.
 
May your fingers
touch the unexpected
always with the thrill
of loving.
 
 

Author’s Bionote:
 
*Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who lives in New Jersey, USA and has just published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled “What Love Calms Only With Nakedness” with Expeditions International Publishing House.. His most recent translation with Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, “Love Me More Than the Others: Selected Poetry or Iraj Mirza”, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2014. He has been a featured poet at; “Europa in versi”, Lake Como, Italy; The Xichang-Qionghai Silk Road International Poetry Week, Xichang, China, the Chengdu International Poetry Week, Chengdu, China, and the International Poetic Conference, Poznań, Poland. Recently he was awarded the Grand Prize for Poetry at the the 2022 International Poetry Festival Mihai Eminescu, Craiova, Romania.