Tango

by David Berger, Jacquie Pearce, Michael Dylan Welch, Michelle Schaefer, James Rodriguez, and Vicki McCullough

First published in Seabeck Reunion, the Seabeck Haiku Getaway tenth anniversary anthology (Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest Press, 2020), page 87. Originally written 28–29 October 2017 at the Meeting House at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, Washington.

midnight—

you roll over

and wake to the moon David

my kisses follow

the curve of light Jacquie

our legs entwined

wordless

we fall to the floor Michael

a tease of breasts

and squeeze below Michelle

my tongue

in your mouth

you draw me in James

rising on the sultry air

the yowl of a cat Vicki