On rays of warmth

I seek you out

As the last violet petal

Feathers to somber dirt

Thirty seven  days

Since we’ve played

Our jungle game

I map your trail

Broken twigs

Trampled yellow liken

Breadcrumbs 

you leave along the way

Along with your smell

Your sweat of gold

That covered me  just moments before

An aroma I’ve come to crave

I sheath my dagger in my pigskin pouch

Ready and eager in the hunt

Humid heat run into me

warming earth and skin

I move

Against the wind

Abstracts of greens, browns and violets

Blur past me

A playful smile 

loving my face

As I pick up your scent once more

All your gold

Wrapped in a melting pot of coconut and breadfruit

Convoluting my senses

I still myself

Slow my breathing

A steady pace

Lift my head

Eyes closed

And lose myself in a sea of you

A woody pleasantness

Breathe it into me

And just when I forget myself 

A breaking branch sounds out in the distance

And again without pause

I am off

My soiled feet beating at the jungle flour

Closing in on your hiding place

I feel you

Closer

With each step

And the proximity feeds my speed

I leave shaking palms,

Clouds of dirt in my wake

Call me the breeze

A warm swift breath of the earth

Unaffected by the bustling of exotic swine along my path

I see only you

And I find you

in a Jaca tree

Perched up high

Laughing down at me

And I search for fallen fruit

To throw at you playfully

Because we agreed “no trees”

You duck and a large Jaca sails past you

“ok…ok you win I shall do what you please”

You surrender willingly

“what is your bidding”

You ask with your tall, broad shoulders against the trunk of the tree

I keep my words

Knowing they have no place between us

Instead I observe my bounty

A mischievous and unrelenting smile

affixed along a scruffy jaw line

Rays of light claiming your brawny chest

Sun stroked and radiant

Your skin calls to me

Commanding my attention

And so

I move toward you

Like a panther to its prey

Focused in my intentions

My dark eyes loving the curves of each muscle

Unyielding

You stand your ground

Confidant and assured in your position

With my head just a breath away from your chin

I close my eyes to the sound of you

Breathing

And allow my lips to suck at your skin

And my tongue to lap your juices

Salt and tang

An across the sea sweatness

Claiming my taste buds

Fueling my thirst

Sending my senses reeling wild and careless

Zealous

In my exploration of you

As I bite your neck teasingly

Surprising your solid demeanor

You lace your calloused fingers in my locs

And pull my head back to face you

“You hungry”

You know the movement appeases me

And I answer readily

“Starving”

We topple to the jungle floor amongst ripened Jaca fruit

That I bite and allow you to taste

Sun and soil blanket us as we tousle over the earth

Our fleshed out lips

Drown in a sea of wet and sticky

As our tongues explore the zest

Your wandering hands press between my thighs

And I gasp in relief at the inclination

With little undoing our animal hide coverings are stripped away

Amidst the yelping of distant monkeys

I lace my long amber legs around you

As you lift me up against your hiding tree

And we lose ourselves once more to the sound of tousled leaves and falling fruit

We inhale each other

Heavy and full

Keeping alert of our surroundings

Yet never severing our entwined bodies

You move into my warmth sympathetically

Aware that your size takes caution

And I trust your control

Knowing any pain will be short lived

Welcoming you in further

My thighs loosen their grip on you

Moans and whimpers

Harmonize with the boiling blood beneath our skin

And fuse our separate bodies

As one

As we stare into each other

Into ourselves

Transferring this all encompassing

undying energy

In a climactic cry of relief and release

Our noise sends a nest of colorful birds fleeing from their perches

In the treetops

Then

When our bodies

Radiating dirt and musk

citrus and tang

are momentarily sated

we race the falling sun

back to our elevated hut

our home

sprinting pass our drinking hole

leaping fallen dogwoods

and scurrying rodents

we break the leafage

to our bamboo hovel

resting just above bronze sand

panting

on a lust-filled high

we unite our bodies in a bath of blue waves

our laughter mingling with the crashing tide

we gather our supplies

unbury the roasting hog

beneath sand and coals

prepare ourselves an awaited feast

of pork, breadfruit, coconut, and wild berries

We lived today

And when the sun sets

We’ll love for tomorrow

Allowing the chill of the night

To keep us entangled

Clenching

Grasping for escaping heat

On a starlit blanket

“So what’s my punishment for losing”

You question

I lean in next to our fire

Allowing the yellow flames to light my face

“A thousand days”

You move in on me

And wrap my legs around your waist

 “A thousand days inside  you?"

With that mischievous smile painted on your face again

“I’ll do my best”.

We taste again