Vertigo

[vaneramos]

For D.O.

Leaving the doorway
you lead me to the brink.
On the ocean of air
swim dazzling lights.
My foot slips
but you sieze me spinning.
Your arm enfolds
from behind
fingers finding
lightly press my sternum.
I feel you waiting
in the small of my back.
Cries of seabirds
rise from the nether distance.
I yearn to drop like a peregrine
succomb to the call of space
and plunge into aquamarine,
drowning salt waves.
You restrain me
from the sweetness of pain.
Hovering on a razor stone
I rest in your enclosure,
supernal torment.