Sunday, December 3, 2023

Love’s Semi-Seated Scene

 

Earrings and a bracelet

on the right arm—how

could be such minutiae

that speak in refined signs

still be honored or espied

along with the pearly beads

that form a collar’s string

above, and yet quite close

when her beauty as a whole

presses forth its cobra’s hood

that leads eyes down—on to

the silky, fluent, shiny route,

sinking under lifted knees—

the black light’s relaxed maw?

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