your flesh is an abacus.
i touch every crumb of the morning on you
dust it off
part you open
real slick slow
my fingers knead
the hard math of you, the science
your goosebumps, my abacus beads
that substitutes logic. you rosary
between my fingers,
you are divinity.
the gable
of your thin crust mouth.
we’re two mounds on mound
one gurgling tongue
frothing hips
skin domes.
you sing like a bush robin.
your bell rhododendron smile.
i can map every gorge of the valley
on you,
every scripture,
every science,
that i left behind.
ADRIJA GHOSH is a queer multilingual poet and their debut collection the commerce between tongues is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books in June 2023. Find them on Twitter and Instagram at @byadrija.