my hands clenched the guardrail even harder and i was twice as tempted by the thirst in my throat i felt it deeper as your eyes danced across me a little differently this time than they did before i tracked your gaze the instant it left mine it stopped for a moment to marvel at the pucker in my lips then fell like rain down my chest until it traced my hips the breeze carried our shoulders bringing our bodies in closer jolted by contempt for our cautious perimeter of containment a poetic juxtaposition of its own the boundlessness of these boundaries we built on a balcony