Anna ladled water onto hot of stones and listened to the sizzle-singe of water’s change fast from liquid into steam at touch to the heating stones. Air around was sudden-changed, heavier in weight from strong sap-scent of the burning wood and fill of the steam in air.
Anna labeled further water from pail, steam-cloud taking into form, and in privacy of room, weight of the air and burdened body, freed herself of robe; naked in her state save for white paint’s cover of her toes.
Through the cloud, she smiled to him, disrobing as she did; sight of him in body and presence in heat and heavy of the space. Her rest in recline over upper bench, long leg’s falling over side, foot’s rest to bench and seat beneath, beside his upward sitting body; their smiles through the cloud and heaviness of air between; beading set of their sweat as bodies cleansed and loosened in unburden and untension in the room; feel of his hand in hold to her calf, sooth of massage, rising higher on as she loosened of the hip.
Love-smiles in the steam.
He moved from seat, hand’s taking to hers, lifted body in guide from her recline.
Holding of faces, gentle of kiss, scent of selves amongst pine-burn in heavy of air. Low-find caresses, each onto other, gentle of kisses keeping on; thick of the air, heavier of bodies’ sweat. Further guide, her raise and settle, resonant of love-made sounds, vibrations into kiss; bright of the world through window view, small and confined in place and space as in heavy of the room, sweat’s further releasing, they unburdened of their tensions in the humid, weight, and strong scent of air through freeing of their love.