Liquid crystallizes into igneous rocks
                until erosion
                carries fragments, small monuments
                depositing waves of salty sleep.

                It's just another burial
                pushed underneath Earth's crusted surface.
                This eternal turning away
                from external could be a result of pressure

                or temperature expressing
                temperamental cycles of change,
                metamorphosis melting magmas erupting
                before I ask, 'what position is best
                for sleep?' and you reply, 'on my side,
                lights off, nude.' I want to talk

                about flushing skin when opposites
                attract and you ask me what I mean.

                Sometimes there's a need for deeper geology.
                                

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