Fire
Jennifer Sparling
Wasted and restlessly
tangled in an embrace of
altered consciousness
your lips taste like
fire that burns down my throat.
Your eyes pierce mine,
sending washes of pleasure
over the irises.
The great blue deep
of your eyes becomes
my window to the world.
Seamlessly shuffle through the
corridor of your self loathing
and my adoration of you
and your candor.
--the candor of your being
much more than you supposed
The shimmer glides through your hair
as you move like fluid
through my arms and into the world.
I lift my glass in asking
if this is how destiny chose
If I were there I wonder
It feels as if I never
walked on the ground so many worship.
I fear my memory has duplicated so many times
that the fondest fondnesses
are becoming trivial in the wake of fancy.


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