A collection of writing by Dominic Riccitello — intimate conversations, personal essays, and poetic reflections on relationships, loss, and self-discovery.

taste

details in you
are where i remember
a desire worth longing for
something that lingers
just beneath skin
just beyond words

i break into pieces
slowly
to taste you
to touch you
to etch you
into places i can’t explain

we perch atop buildings
above everything we’ve known
the grasp
the taste
the roughness of your fingers
tracing meanings into me

i taste you in symmetry
in the balance we pretend to hold
divided fingers i grip
tight enough to feel you stay

teeth against your ears
breath caught between seconds

can you taste this
the way it lives in the air
i’d die for you
just to feel it once more
can you feel this

the drips
the drop
the slow pull of time

the sweat along your
lips — i taste you here
where everything softens
beside the warmth of sheets
that hold what we don’t say

the moments
drawn out longer than they should be
the aggression
the power
the quiet underneath it

it slips between the cracks
in the sheets
in the spaces we leave open

i feel you
even when you pull away

can you feel this

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