Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Distaff Side

You come on
aflame and rolling
through a room,
from slack-hips
to paint-blistering fingertips.
A flickering St. Christopher
blazes high above
your breasts.
My lip catches the crest
and drags across,
running the length
of your shoulder,
unsealing that envelope,
pulling smolder~~
An ash-borne crumbling acrobat,
glancing off
fawn-brushed thighs,
threading silk slung
pink crinkle crinoline loops.
Speckled marble balustrades melt
under the weight of sighs.
Waxwings beat aflutter
and down-dive.
Flywheels shudder
off singing sinews’
sympathetic cries.
Satellites luminous
rise
and expire,
Shunted down dusk alleys
of defunct desire.

3 comments:

  1. ! how you show me meter and rhyme! how you show me the importance of patience. (and yet i have none.) so good to read aloud.

    and such a fizzle at the end with defunct desire.

    xo
    erin

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  2. "You come on..." the start of something big here.
    Imagery of hot fire and spent ash, rising and falling, light and dark.
    The last line is most telling.

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