Some poetry to go with 'Portrait of a lady on fire'

'Although I’d cream my jeans touching your breast,
sweetheart, it isn’t lust; it’s all the rest
of what I want with you that scares me shitless.' https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49261/didnt-sappho-say-her-guts-clutched-up-like-this

like candles lighting the entire soft lace
of the air
around the full length of your hair/a shower
organized by God
in brown and auburn
undulations luminous like particles
of flame https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54507/poem-for-haruko

and sand and rocks
we walked across:
How easily you held
my hand
beside the low tide
of the world

If they'd grown old together:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54620/peanut-butter

It’s more

like a playground

where I play

with my reflection

of you until

you come back

and into the

real you I

get to sink

my teeth.

we are in a world that is not ours. what do we do with the
dreams that touch our consciousness in the nude each night? https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147272/dreaming-of-lesbos

under the will of the God of sex,
so I softly invoke transformation of your rueful image of haven
–those frozen rocks, that guilty lighthouse isolate from temptation–
to warm Flemish landscape green and brighteyed with daisies of
dizzying color https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148774/a-poem-of-love-in-eleven-lines

Think that's enough longing for one evening, yeah?