“Where the Dream Surrenders to Silk” © Bill Wolak

 

One Kiss Contains Another

Drawn into the trance
of silk-swept nakedness,
one kiss contains another
until they scatter over her body
like glitter.

Her thighs are softer than
a mirror’s whisper,
her hair the color of daylight
streaming through a shattered window
in an abandoned warehouse,

All night to heighten desire
she moans in my ear
and into the pillows,
moans deeper than memory,
moans from the center of every cell,
moans until I’m emptied of words,
moans until I’m beyond tenderness.

 

Bill Wolak is a poet, collage artist, and photographer who has just published his nineteenth book of poetry entitled What Love Calms Only With Nakedness with Expeditions International Publishing House. His collages and photographs have appeared recently in the 2026 Dirty Show in Detroit, Amorous Art 2026 in Indianapolis, the 2025 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, the 2020 International Festival of Erotic Arts (Chile), the 2020 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the 2018 Montreal Erotic Art Festival, and Naked in New Hope 2018. He was a featured artist in the book Best of Erotic Art (London, 2022).