Ismael Garay Three Poems THE GRAVITY OF LOVE Let me stay here inside your eyes, let me find sanctuary in the soft universe of your arms, beneath the blue seas of your small hands– I measure your love by the warmth of your touch, I measure the rain by the depths of your blues. Because of your kiss I’ve forgotten how to sleep, because of your song I wont allow myself to dream. You spread your legs for the rising sun-- let’s stay here together and never wake up. THE EMPTY WHITE DESERT Days of slow burning fire, nights are stars we can’t breathe in, and these poems are breathing inside me as I’m counting the clouds before they melt behind the blue. A SHORT POEM OF DETACHMENT Desire is a blue sky painted by tiny buddhas under orange trees.