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July 31, 2006
Swallowing You
Standing naked
behind the window
as the night crawls outside
a quiet serpent is roaming the house
I'm all heaving, all breath,
I'm all fusion, electric pulses
and my skin thaws against the cool glass, raw
I am all expecting
Autumn brought golds and amber
as the life of greens bled in oranges
I counted the trees, and counted again
as they stood bare, their barks dry, crackling
against e air i a quiet sorrowed submission
no objection, no denial, a callas season corroding
the surface,- Autumn bloomed in browns and purple
as I counted e trees
the house came to life
like the boundaries on edges
of each bricks and walls turned in
I put oranges and reds, yellows and amber
sparkles on cold pieces of wood, cranked the
essence inside, and celebrated the fire, as
it hung in the air, blowing outward
Autumn had swallowed the house
Seasons defy times
in a deliberate extension
that moves beyond as the Clock ticks
and the worm moves further inside
morphing to shiny pieces of larva
I declines all the invitations
locked the door, and checked them
over and over, as the clock ticked
I picked on you
with my long beak, hungry
like a vulture at a cadaver, in a ritual
and you stayed, like a memory that hangs
in the attic and surrounds a day of idle thoughts
I picked on you, and swallowed you, like the last
piece of a left over at the quiet of a midnight
and how you melted in me, coming inside
You held on
as I reached you,
as I rang the bell and tongued
you, layers of pink, and simmered you
raw with my breath, my longings, my appetite
I molded you, a deformed goddess, and broke you
at the edges of your skin, and you held on, like
memories of the moth at the exaltation of the last flame
till I fell in you
we both smiled
at the Autumn, and the seclusion
of a season so unexpected, so calm
we had tea in the afternoon, and watched
the last show at midnight, then you left
back to the attic, and I stood behind the window naked
tasting my mouth, holding my sex, tonguing my lips
Posted by Idinraha at July 31, 2006 02:53 PM