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Bordeau

Desire swirls, embraces my mind
His lips paint my throat
An animal growl from one or both
Raw flesh salt rubs my tongue, lingers
Convulsions of hunger echo through me
Thick wine, mulled five and twenty years
Explodes inside me
He groans, stiffens
Shudders
Elixir slips over my
Lips, slides down my throat
Burning, filling
Deep-bodied groans tear through him
Satiation
He returns sensation, enters me
My ecstasy stiffens, shudders
Little death over takes
Eternity

Apparition

You lay so calm in slumber. I watch
Muscles ripple as you shift position,
White sheets slip against your naked, bronzed body.
Mahogany locks tumble restlessly over your shoulders.
The silken spirals beckon my touch;
I dare not. The daylight blinds my sight
And forces flight. At dawn, I leave you
To your work and mortal lover. She feels
The strength of your passion; I am its cause.
She will never see you as I do, my beloved.
I am there, ever watching, ever waiting
For you to recognize. I am the Goddess
Of your dreams. Your secret slave. Gaze
Into immortal eyes. Accept eternity.

Untitled

Called me to you
in the blackest midnight
I lay beside you
an eternal mistress
We share aeons
tart cherry nectar
satiated flesh
Erotic images, distant dreams
Of you

I reach out
Comfort me
your piercing kiss enflames
Fly with me
Winged immortality
escaping death and life
Consummate with me age's aging passion

Turning
Your eyes blaze at me
Wanting, needing...nothing
You disperse into my void
searching for sustenance
And now I know
how truly alone we each exist

Woman Who Sleeps with Death

...wakes each day - at dusk -
surrounds herself in satin darkness
The dying sun, fire on flesh
seduces with smiles promising all
Pain-filled ecstasy
Chilling the soul
Tempting the skein

...licks her lips, sighs
drowns her porcelain body
in oil, scented peach
Silk ripples, water over skin
dark eyes watch
blurring centuries
Dancing the night
Dreaming the day

...loves warm summer showers
bathes her mournful soul
in Nature's clouded tears
tasted crimson flows
Trembles, climaxes
strolls shadow-deepened streets
Men stare
Women glare jealously
...shutters her heart

trails tears in ages past
bleeds sadness, shifts blame
pretends composure
Feeding from life
Courting death

Origin

When darkness from the desert came
Invited by the Pharaoh home
She who danced without a name
Set the Mighty One aflame
His court, she set their mouths to foam
When darkness from the desert came
With flame-kissed locks and azure gaze she sought acclaim
His darkened skin her bloody lips did roam
She who danced without a name
Sought the man-god out to tame
Dragged him toward the heart of Rome
When darkness from the desert came
His prostrate form did glean much shame
Anointing marble skin with honeycomb
She who danced without a name
With her condition she did stain
His new dove-bleached flesh, turned to stone
When darkness from the desert came
She who danced without a name

Ballad of Kali

The babe in birth utters not a sound
No squalling shrieks of indignation
As bindings break and flood the ground
In rivers of prophetic blood

Around his head wrap thorns of sin
The child in rags, clothed in dirt
No mews of pain, no cries of hunger
Spindle needles pierce his palm and finger
The carpenter's nail buries in arch and toe

His heart rips free of flesh confines
Youth lies in a bed of refuse
Paper flesh on brittle bones
Sharp words cleave his breast
And spill crimson fire

Lover's touch numbs the wond'ring spirit
Man beaten, unprovoked, preordained
A plea unheard, unanswered, ignored
His body to this earth restored
Life cycle complete, soul departs

The babe in birth utters deafening sound
No quiet coos of supplication
Lilith lives upon his screams and cries
Growing young as he ages, dies