hot springs

We first lay down among flowers.
A moon flower in your hand
scents a course across my lips

to hips that mock the splay
of petals, your mouth, a night
moth following pollen fortune.

Gravity abandons and we rise,
climbing the cusp of Venus
to a heaven pillowed
in the wings of Pleiades.

Thighs interlaced, we dive
and tumble earthward.
Star jeweled, our bodies

facets of a spinning pavilion
plunge into the misty veil
of Loftus Springs where nature’s heat

slides over an arc of rock
and ripples recite
the magnitude of our waves.

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Author's Note:
This poem was written for a poetry challenge with the following parameters:

Write an erotic poem about making love in water that begins with the following first line and uses all of the following five nouns and five verbs.

We first lay down among flowers.

thighs
pavilion
hand
fortune
bodies

mock
pillowed
recite
jeweled
abandons

Thanks to Zen Master Ikkyu for the word list and first line.