bathroom adonis
1.
In this song let me call you adonis
Stroking
At the same time begins to stroke and at the same time touching
They don’t look at each other, just at the ceiling, then at the blackness of their own closed eyelids until, at last,
He rolls over to kiss you and, in the end, the underwear is gone and limbs link.
Oh, he is soft, The boy thinks. Oh his kiss is just what I wanted. I could gather him up and be in his arms and feel his body, these thick thighs, this soft, sweet skin, this warmth, oh God, the beauty of a shaved head, of cheeks not shaved for a couple of days, of those eyelids and the mouth, the generous mouth, oh, those hands up and down me.
And oh, the hair on his legs, so gentle, the perfect length of legs, the firmness of his ass, the dent in the small of his back, oh his back, His beautiful man gathers as much of him as possible between his thighs, pulls his face down to kiss him in the dark, to luxuriate in his kiss, in his kiss, in his firm kiss, in his tongue thrust into his mouth, tasting gently of beer and the memory of cigarettes and spearmint gum, in the tangling curls of his hair.
“I love you.”
It slips out of his mouth like a surrender. He never tells it to a lover and has never believed it from lovers in the past.
How tender it sounds when Adonis boy says it too.
“Be inside me,” his man says.
The whole apartment is quiet and dark. The only sounds are small, the small creaking and giving way of the bed, of little moans and gasps. If one was there to watch you could see them, burrowed into the corner of the bed like a ball, Adonis, white assed, on hands and knees, dark haired thighs bunched as he kneels, gathering his beloved to him, his brown thighs around Adonis’s waist as, greeted by a long grown he enters. They fit together in tender gasps, his hands rubbing his back, and finally, slow at first, and then with steady rhythm, piston like, Adonis fucks him.
“I’m about to come,” Adonis tells him. “I’m about to come.”
“Come inside of me.”
“Are you…?”
But his man is pulling him in, and The boy has not stopped, and he cannot stop. His body freezes and then jerks, and his man feels him pumping, pulsing, feels the slick semen coming between his thighs. He cradles The boy’s damp head to his, kissing Adonis’s trembling face, feeling his own hardness, knowing he will do the same to the boy before the night is over. He cannot say he’d always wanted to do this because he cannot say this was planned. Adonis, gasping, reluctantly unlinks from him, and they hold each other, lying face to face, unable to speak.
2.
I mourn it, and I don’t know why. I understand the regret that comes from things you’ve done that never get repaired, but not the regret from things that, in the end turned out quite alright. I know everything that was going on that night on Adonis’s side, but what in the world was going on with me? What did I expect? When we said, let’s go to the bedroom, when I turned off the light, surely I knew what I was doing. Or did I just want to lie next to him and feel the heat of his body? And what is the difference, really, between wanting his presence and wanting to make love?
It was almost one in the morning when I walked him down, his guitar over his shoulder. We held hands, his thumb rubbing the inside of my palm, I his. My apartment is on the second level and a stair whose smell I can’t quite describe leads down to the little foyer or whatever where there are two more doors to other apartments, and the glass door leading to the street. There we hug for a long time, and then he kisses me, and says, “Don’t forget Sunday.”
As he gets into his car and heads down the street, I feel the regret of not asking him to stay. Maybe I thought it would happen on Sunday, or maybe I’d been with so many men I didn’t want to stay that I couldn’t realize how much I wanted to wake up with this one until he was gone. All through the night the regret was an ache that turned into yearning and longing. Even after I had showered and lay in bed thinking of work in the morning, I could still feel that boy inside of me.
3.
“I know what I did was wrong—” he begins.
But he unzips his pants the same time he goes to his
knees and begins blowing him.
“Oh my… God.”
The boy closes his eyes and wishes he could turn out
the light, keep the fluorescence from passing through his eyelids.
He presses the back of his hands to the door and makes
sure it locked.
He wanted this again. He wanted his lover, and he
wanted to put his hands on his scalp and massage it
and feel that particular mouth on his particular cock,
pulling him in so deep,
making him swell, his tongue touching everything.
His beloved stands up
and pulls down his pants,
and,
his dick so hard it almost hurts,
the boy moves to the sink.
He gather’s his thighs around his waist,
feels his chest pressed to his,
his lover’s arms wrapped about him,
and watches his own face while he fucks him, and then has to stop watching because he feels
he is violating himself, violating this moment and turning
it to porn.
They don’t say anything, though now and again
The boy rubs his phlegm on his swelling cock to make things
smoother.
They are pressed together,
and the boy’s bearded cheek is rubbing against his dark lover.
“You make me so helpless,” he groans as he fucks him.
Then he pleads, “Please, let me come in you. Please.”
The beloved reaches back for a handful of hair
and Adonis closes his mouth, grunting as he comes.
He feels himself shooting and shooting past the tightness into
the space and the
peace that is the heart of him,
even as his lover feels the slickness,
the pump pump
pump of Adonis’s semen.
Suddenly, caught off guard by his own response,
he pushed Adonis’s shirt up and the boy feel, hot and spurting,
the young fountain of his beloved’s ejaculation against
his chest his stomach. As he comes, he trembles in his lover’s arms,
and in that little bathroom that is the whole world,
fragile,
they shake together.
They remain pressed together,
Adonis embracing him,
There is a place, a dimension of space
Where they never will let go.