Wednesday, September 3, 2008

you are such a glorious enigma that you choke the singer and stump the poet

you are paper-thin lightning
a sweet liquid baritone

the fluid pinging of a harp.

you are the sweet-smelling juice dribbling
down children's chins from the pulp of a skinned

peach.

you are as fragile as a marizipan Eros
whose warmth i cradle in the curve of my spine

the great Greek confection staring
with affably lung-numbing eyes from the backs
of my eyelids.

your armor is clean and undented.

no, no, no, no
you can't handle me.

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