Between Thoughts
A poem by Michael Andrés Herrera
©2025
From the whistling hills of a thousand empty thoughts
folding and creasing into itself.
The skies flow with rivers that cannot sit still,
Bedrocks open to a cloudless silver mist
blanketing the meadow blossom.
Its flowers fade
and return
in runaway blurs,
flashes and skips,
The afterimage echoes in bouncing lights,
Whirls and rings
that cease not to question,
Pulling into an intense
p u l s i n g h e a t
erratic pleasures of
immense carnal depths,
teeth clenched in gasping sheets
walls gripping in hysterics
afraid to indulge in the
pointless sowing
and seeding and sowing
and
a n d
a n d-
…
Two soft pincers emerge from below,
Terminating in delicate, crimping toes,
They wrap tenderly around my back.
A calming breath rolls across the nape - truly a loving caress.
By sorcery-
the heat, the lights, the undulant maze
of shifting mounds, free-flowing skies and roiling mist-
Hush. Gone.
From dizzying spins,
I succumb to the comfort and warmth of soft breasts.
Chin turned upwards, inviting the search
Of her mellowing lights, albeit in vain.
Worried, yet bemused by the spectacle,
She asks without speaking:
“What’s wrong?”
…
…
Try as I might
…
I can only muster
A spiralling silence.
…
Without you
I’m lost