In The Garden Of Eden

It stops
in front of me
smooth
silky
and unscented

eyes
widen to discover
me

it might leap
loose
from fear

heartbeats
fill moments
sand spills
to lower chamber

hours pass
in twitching lashes

cotton dampens in corners
careless thumbs
fold into fingers

fists dangle
locked and loaded

caution creeps
to eyebrows
two hemispheres
clasped in vision

there is time to change our minds