The Garden’s Voices
Yellow Fever Dream
Yellow fire rains soft upon her obsidian skin—
each golden bloom a lover’s hesitant breath,
brushing the curve of thigh, the hollow of collarbone,
the slow arc where ribs surrender to shadow.
They do not fall; they seek.
Delicate stems trace invisible scars,
petals kiss like fingertips dipped in sunlight,
warm, trembling, alive against the cool void of her body.
Goosebumps rise like secret confessions
a thousand tiny electric betrayals,
skin remembering what the mind has tried to forget:
how touch can be both mercy and violence.
She lies still, yet every nerve sings open—
the flowers do not cover her;
they undress her from the inside,
peeling silence into shivers,
turning black marble into molten want.
One petal skims the pulse at her throat
and the universe contracts
love is not gentle here.
It is the slow, unbearable drag of beauty
across flesh that has forgotten how to yield,
until it yields everything.
She breathes once.
The field of gold trembles.
And in that