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John Bush
Salome
I will dance for you
like a piece of wind
through the quietest distance,
stirring
all points of supernal light
into a retinal flash behind closed eyes--
those fragments of bone
into an immaculate constellation for your
prize.
But I want you to know
that I could
womb fear in your hands
drain your cavities of blood
burn to ash the open iris
eliminated in your carnal stare,
your craven reluctance to be firm.
But if you promise
me
I will dance forever
in the statues of your mind
will let
you savor
the pure blood
that thickens
beneath that lung colored face.
And that is what you want, really, isn't
it?
She mounts the mouth wrapped around a silenced
cry
climbing the impeccable scale of motion,
arcane and bodiless as the last plague
of being. |