MiPo Poetry Board Best of 2002

 
 John Eivaz  We Love You Yeah  

The Beginning of Fuck

I fuck all the dirt off of you:
      under the snaky tree, ignore the seep of squeezing sun, in the tree, reptilian with sinews made of squeeze and coil, wrapped a word hard to utter inside your open mouth, around your wet tongue, ravenous without knowing, bird wings beating against each other on the same drab bird, whipped through the air first angular and apart, looking for the mesh of each other, the flight without flying, the random beats of fever's pulse finally meshed, coils squeeze and seep below, arms sliding rough granules of earth from us, we may be flying, here in this tree, under this tree, clean and flying without song or word, a grasp for none.

Inside there is water:
      holy water, salt water, water of life and high tide, this water flies in our flight as our world rips through space, we will die, things are invisible, now we know of things like water within, the curse of the coil, beatification of body by another, rumblings finally erupting, churches toppled, angels sent down from the bed, down, down, into the water rippling through us in a race to the falls where descent is forever over much too quickly, it is all a blessing, the hours of fuck, tongue genuflections through sundial hours coils and courses, skin clean by sweat, mouths open in silent song.

Drink of my water, as I take yours:
      parched spirit refresh, heat of heat to steam, lick the clean sweat, the holy water, thick foam coming like the sea, strength of tide and then no more, warmth of the ocean within you, under the tree, in the snaky tree, gush of your beauty slicks my lips in the squeeze of coiling shade, song of the gush beginning, syllables of sweat, mantra of moan cut abrupt as this tide of semen, trickling down like your ocean to new dirt, angels fallen from bed, unmeshed into the squeeze of a seeping sun.

 

trust

he wonders of her stillness:
is she waiting?

like spiderweb lightning
the touch of her acquiescence
open-palmed further into pleasure
her touch against his     within
surprises     then stupors
shortens his breath

lit sky a dozen times
what does she sense in the pause?
nothing exists, not a thing but her
and she only cherry red strokes
cheeks still     half-crimson
he for a moment merely
hunger for her

poised, then free of pause
a dozen meetings, a dozen
senseless explanations
by moan and whimper
both together
held by little cries
all else stillness
the center of which is joy
now it can be seen
through their caution

kisses follow     first to savor
the warmth     to know her pliancy
revere her flesh

no longer either
allure or obstruction
no trick of light

the indulgence, the request
held in her round rise to meet his hand
draws him     more joy     he is
within her world thieved moments,
closer than he's ever been
to another

the real surrender
shoots from their center
into furthest dust
of each alone

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Dorothy D. Mienko
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