Origami Moonlight: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2009-2012
By Paul Hina
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Origami Moonlight is Paul Hina's third installment in his continuing Collected Poems series. In this follow-up to Such Deliberate Loveliness (2007) and Of Wanting and Rain(2011), Hina uses his unique, whimsical language to create an impressionistic, labyrinthine landscape of man's desire.
Paul Hina
Paul Hina is the author of eight novels including Imeros, Let it Snow, and Double Play. His eighth novel, The Other Shore, was released in March 2016 with the story From the Boathouse in a single volume, The Other Shore: Two Stories of Love and Death. The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair is his most recent release and includes three new stories. Hina has also published four collections of poetry including Such Deliberate Loveliness, Of Wanting and Rain, Origami Moonlight and Music Only We Know. Paul currently lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, Sarah, and their two children.
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Origami Moonlight - Paul Hina
origami moonlight: Collected Love Poems of Paul Hina 2009-2012
Paul Hina
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Table of Contents
Poems 1-10
Poems 11-20
Poems 21-30
Poems 31-40
Poems 41-50
Poems 51-60
Poems 61-70
Poems 71-80
Poems 81-90
Poems 91-100
Poems 101-110
Poems 111-120
Poems 121-130
Poems 131-140
Poems 141-150
Poems 151-160
Poems 161-171
1
the summer girls smell sweeter
than spring with strawberry stains
smeared across their lips, sun
streaks sliding down the silk of
their candy-sweet hair
and the soft soil of their skin
shivers with thoughts of hands
hanging hearts like lanterns over
their bated bodies where sexual
shadows will swing, cutting the
humid air of long, hot nights soaked
in silence and sweat and secrets
that startle a star-scarred sky
into the sweetest seizure of
lemon bursts that mar the
moonlight with the most sour
sensations of a body smothered
in wild strawberries
2
the way you tuck one leg under your
body,
the way your melancholy lips mouth
the words you read,
the way your eyes sparkle with both
absorption and sadness,
the shape of your knees,
the beating heart breathing beneath
the flesh of your ankles,
your hair,
clumsily tied behind your
head like it had been combed out by
flippant fingers,
and, as your hands touch the tips
of your toes in a heartbreakingly feminine
tilt of the body,
i lose my balance,
and when you look up,
you catch my fall by placing your fingers
on your lips,
then i lose my breath,
caught on the cusp of your countless
riddles of kisses
3
to kiss her on the lips would
be to drink from some perfect fountain
of sweetest wine,
and i would get too easily drunk on her
juice,
all abuzz from the weight of her tender,
fermented kisses,
to hear her hair whisper things against
my face would be like the wispiest fingers
carefully mapping out my flesh,
and i might grow dizzy from those tender
tendrils of tickles,
uncertain of the direction my fingers will
take to travel the distance of her thighs
to feel her hands plucking at my heart would
be like vibrations of harp strings softly singing
her all my secrets,
and i would happily hand her every hidden
breath,
be ecstatically breathless from the many trips
we've taken inside one another
4
she chews her words with lips
frantically built for kissing,
she hums songs of secrets inside
her beautiful head, waiting to sing
them softly in his somewhere ears,
her flesh anticipates his flesh, crawls
with shivers of waiting sensations, like
snow were always descending around
her, never quite reaching her hungry
skin,
and she sleeps in these wintery beds
she makes, waiting for his strong, warm
hands to devour her with the sweet, sunny
orangeness he slips over her skin when
she dreams
5
he has poetry on his mind, stained
like strawberries to a kiss,
her lips are red and her cheeks are ablush
with joy and laughter,
and when she tries to settle the child
within her with startles of seriousness,
she coyly crosses her legs,
and he pours poetry on her like warmest
chocolate,
and he devours all those thick drips of words,
unwrecks a wish before it wanes into some
shape of normalcy,
or falls into a plethora of pedestrian questions,
names and pasts
(heartaches hovering over honey and wine)
and he plunders the depths of her with mouthfuls
of strawberries and sentences,
coyly uncrosses her legs
6
the light surrounds me, warms my body,
but blackens her silhouette—swallows
her edges and curves with its bright brilliance,
and the distance between us—like some
elegantly dimming star that i'll strive to
remember—makes me grasp tight to her
body's slender shape, and i'll hang a shine
on the tenderness i've learned simply
by being near her,
and at night, though i reach to touch her
brilliant yellow surround, or to taste its
tantalizing arcs of sparks, i can only know
its echoing sound, its delusion of temperature,
its memory of a shine making mirrors from
the light of the moon, musing on its old