SILK ROAD
A thousand worms on a mulberry tree
As soft as they spin and as hard as they try
can never match the silk of your inner thigh
Tag Archives: sensuality
LYSISTRADA
LYSISTRADA
No peace, no piece
INTO THE WEB
INTO THE WEB
In you is the love making
of teeth and claws
and the severing of limbs
While Mister Black Widow
even knowing the end of the act
Leaps into the web and
pulls it to him with
all eight arms
APHRODITE HOTEL
APHRODITE HOTEL
At the Aphrodite Hotel
Moon and Acropolis
full in our window
Greece is so lubricating
OLIVE OIL
OLIVE OIL
In Greece last week
I bought a bottle of extra virgin olive oil
Which is a bit more expensive than the
regular virgin kind
I expect that it is due to the labor involved
tying all the branches apart
So that they don’t even touch themselves
WIND AND RAIN
WIND AND RAIN
Does wind linger long in the rain
to quench its desert thirst
Or in the day shiver
and hurry to the sunlight
At night does it eagerly
slip through open windows
To join us under echoing roof
and kiss our skins with
moistened lips
AGAIN
AGAIN
To look out across sunsets and centuries
to see time as nothing – – – love as all
To touch new skins in wonder
and come together again
Under a sky, dark with a million
ancient stars
WIND AND RAIN
WIND AND RAIN
Does wind linger long in the rain
to quench it’s desert thirst
Or in the day shiver
and hurry to the sunlight
At night does it eagerly
slip through open windows
To join us under echoing roof
and kiss our skins with
moistened lips
LULLABY TO POLARITY
LULLABY TO POLARITY
The more the more you are woman
the more I am man
The more you rest soft in my arms
the stronger they become
The more the more I am man
the more you are woman
The more the strength
in the shape of the spoon
The more the more even in sleep
you curl up and melt
into sugar and good medicine
VENUS UNEARTHED BY THE CHRISTIANS
VENUS UNEARTHED BY THE CHRISTIANS
At first they sermonized her some
and prayed long over her and around her
And yet she solidly refused to change
In their Christian charity
(it was more rampant then)
they decided not to destroy her
And yet
it was not a good thing for the children
to see her touching herself in that way
So the arms would have to go