i closed my cardigan at every button
and slumped into the sofa beside you.
my body, absorbing space, lay ingenuously
like a renaissance goddess in egg tempera.
the scent of a rising advance moved before you
and i, raged by some ill-suited mood, bit your cheek.
2 comments:
I loved "absorbing space"!
When I was a young boy, I was fascinated by egg tempera for some reason. (Maybe the idea that paint could be made of something edible...) But I also thought it was the most distinct & distinguished of media (the same reason that I loved the English Horn so, for its similar position in the orchestra). But I digress...
What a gem, dear! What a savage ending! Compact, like a punch.
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