<b>ART LESSON NO.1: CHARCOAL</b>
Teach me another - a new music, a new art
your strange sonata movement, concentration - fingers blur
teach me to sketch - press thumb down here
dark chocolate stick in hand - swirling mouth to ear
fingers candy wrap around mine
<i>to page two page flip page new page</i>
smudge lines between friends and lovers
<i> my fingerprint here
whorls patterned like Japanese rock gardens.</i>
Sit close to me; curved back to fluttering chest
you can't see straight anymore, draw eyes closed
a singular line trails off course
<i>see? I drew a foot.</i>
On my cheek - marks of pencil gray, dear
mark me gray, your eyes of gray
charcoal bright dim light (but your irises are brown).
We dream on finger-printed sheets.
Press my coal-dusted thumb to your skin, sleeptalk to me
<i>stay awake</i>
make my profile - don't wash off memory don't fade
bite my lip, follow my silhouette
teach me another new portrait on this
<i> narrow canvas bed</i>
<i> your feet are cold, you say, hug me
I snort derisively.</i>
I'll listen to this music
teach me to follow to gray
and I will memorize you.