To the light of a million twinkling stars
beneath silhouettes of tall coconut palms
upon a sun-faded Aztec cotton sheet
spread across the warm beach sand
pouring sweat with the least little motion
in the humid tropical night air
cooled by occasional splashes of breeze
lying bare before God and Universe
with bodies pounding in the darkness
to the hypnotic rhythm of ocean surf
making love ’til the coming of dawn.