Selkie Continued

She rises from the pool
Dripping
Gleaming in the moonlight
Shakes crystal sparks of water
Carelessly from her hair
Then casts aside a shadow
Sits and lets the gentle breeze
Caress her
Enfold her in its loving embrace

The unseen watcher
Clenches his fingers
Holds his breath as she arches her back
Offering her breasts to the silver fingers of moonlight
Slips a hand down beteen her legs
And begins a slow
Langorous teasing

Rivulets of saltwater stream
Unnoticed
Down his face
As time freezes
For just a moment
And when it starts again
He is already halfway to her
Moving like water
Over the slick
Treacherous rock

She opens her eyes
And he sees no surprise
Only expectation
As if she'd known
Or planned it
All along

And then he's upon her
Grasping her hair
Pressing her to him
His mouth on hers
The saltiness of the sea
Mingling with the sweetness of their kiss

He tears his shirt
Casts it aside
To join that shadow
That lies now
Crumpled
On the rock

Her hands slide up his back
Carressing nippled skin
And taut muscle
To entwine in the dripping
Black curls of his hair

When he enters her
The sea surrounds them
The stars attend them
A sprinkling of diamonds
Across the black velvet sky

Slowly at first
So agonisingly slowly
As if there were all the time
In the world
And then
In a rising rythm
To match the hiss and swoosh of each wave
And with a growing fierceness
That rivals the pounding of the surf
He thrusts
Her body arching to meet his
Like the curl of a wave
Her cries like that of the sea birds
In an orgy of discovery

And then he stiffens
Arches into her
As the perfect wave
Engulfs them both
The warm salt foam
Uniting them
Binding them

When they rise
She offers him
Repentant
The shadow of his selkie skin
But he shakes his head
Draws her to him
Kisses the salt spray from her breast

Her greatest hold on him
Goes far deeper than that