ALCHEMY
More than townships apart,
by magic tricks your mind is good at,
you’ve transformed me from lover
into “mother of your children,”
managed a total white-out
colder than Arctic blindness.
No memory of desire
kicks you under the heart:
not that night at the Yale club
when you slid under my Pucci slip,
nor the long train rocking
from London to Edinburgh,
nor the time I startled your bare feet
with my breasts.Now your cordial cheek
short-stops my lips.
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OMPHALOS
I walk downslope to your darkness
pooled there in the valley’s cup,
slip off my chrysalis of clothing
and step into you.
Your cool liquid caresses my ankles,
my calves, behind my knees,
slides over my hips and belly.
I lean forward and lay myself
upon you, glide into you.
Your black silk sweeps along my ribcage,
along my reaching arms, curves in gentle
bow-waves against my breasts.
I swim in cool, black silk.
Moon, rising full, draws her train
upon your onyx surface.
I turn into her wake,
stroke through quicksilver,
light rippling at my throat.
From my palms whirl discs of light.
I roll onto my back,
spread outstretched on you,
eyes closed, fingers lax,
head, back, buttocks, legs
buoyed on your cool depth,
laved in moonlight
and your blackness.
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TRANSMUTATION
At your touch
pulse leaps
like a startled trout
deep in its watery domain,
and from this nexus
your hand on me
ripples ring and widen.
Cast into your stream,
I feel your flow grasp,
swirl and eddy through me,
shivers chime my spine.
Your depth invites a novel balance.
Going deep,
now undulant with you,
I’m taking your river in,
tasting you,
breathing….
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RECEIVING THE WIND
Ripe wheat
obeisance of stems
heavy with seed.
Wind, inscribing itself,
the shape of itself,
in fluencies of grain.
The field eddies and swirls
under an ardency of air.
Clouds roil west to east,
cast down penumbral waves
across the tawny light of grass,
again make visible
the hurrying form of air.
So do we know
passion’s sweet seizure
by the impress we take upon ourselves,
our desire to bow and bend
under that touch again, again.
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