an ocean empties

Lovers On Our Backs (In A Salton Sea)

when you surrender,

tender

beneath the weight of me,

waiting patiently

for the wash, the roar, the hum,

somewhere an ocean empties

completely,

only to fill again

with the sweat and moist

of collapse,

in waves upon a beach, upon a bed,

leaving you and me,

lovers on our backs,

emptied out, asleep and adrift

in a Salton Sea.

painting: pablo picasso's 'the embrace', 1903