Midnight’s bioluminescence

Bioluminescence glowed

in pools across the beach

made by our twined, silver footsteps

Gull calls waned low above our heads

curls windswept

I plucked a clementine tendril

from your face and

tucked it behind the lines of your

ear’s night-darkened shell

Whisper your sweet nothings to me

above the waves’ crash and

the black stones swept back into the sea

Hold my hand

like the 

swish-hiss

of palm leaves

touching in the salt breeze

Our Cupid’s bows touch

like the gossamer of

sea foam lacing

across the sand

Know me at midnight

in our alone

beneath the Pacific’s constellations

Know me in every way

the Earth turns.