Cloud Shadows

She drifts across the valleys
Of my heart's despair
Like the shadow of a cloud -
Diaphanous slip of shade
Drifting across the shape
Of my heart's terrain,
Shameless with color.
My love is no shadow
But a raw, sleek animal
Of dancing hunger
With wet, silk skin
And diamonds for eyes
Running unleashed
Across the grass softened
Floors of my untellable dreams -
Ardent and wild,
Graceful as the fevered clench
Of my yearning spirit -
Swift as the rivers of breath
Whispering back and forth
Between her body and my soul.