We once swam together, you and I; In some viscous, tropic sea, aglow With phosphorescence; corals spread In vivid chaos, like rumpled bedding Beneath our naked bodies. I felt your legs brush mine; soft As the touch of lapping wavelets and so I stroked your stomach, watching As your wriggled, magic sea-thing Beckoning me to follow as you swam to shore Where, caressed by wavelets, you took me Into your being, rising and falling with the sea And as you came, you cried in joy, to feel The wavelets lap us, claiming what we’d given… The moon smiled and earth turned once more.