Genesis

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran   

The new moon lies in the arms of the old

Suspended beneath the canopy of night

The shadows

slung low like hammocks

Swing on a willing wind that quills

A necrotic star's burst

into a glistering cat's eye nebulae

"So let it be written, so let it be done..."
Said the Father to the Sun,

Forming a spiraling lullabye 

In Twilight's Lane

and

Suddenly

Our world is born again.

You're Adam

I'm Madam

But you can call me Eve

And we'll wrap

Ourselves sweetly 

in those sticky fig leaves

I'll gnaw on your rib

Needily 

Greedily

Knowing with forethought

All the biblical wonders

We have yet to relive

My thighs part

Like the Nile

To receive your Moses

And fulfill every mandate

In the tableau of your command

Until we tire

Of the one God

And decide

To play our Exodus 

in the seas of  Ulysses instead

Then Cupid callously pierces my heart

With the light of your Conquistador eyes 

My siren calls are muted for now

Your lips incarnate the fiery promise

In Knossos' iridescent Agate surprise

Your breath...

The hallowed air 

that sustains my life

Inundated with its salt kiss

I sink in...

Your touch
Wedding me

Making me Fate's wife

 Los Aguascalientes 

That once baptized

Ponce de Leon

Seduce me to a greater beyond

Our glass of sea shatters

The waves purr and pounce on me 

Ferociously 

Their spills of silver

slicing our memory and

I become the shock of Titian's Venus

In the glare of a foamless reality

Glory scatters

As the wind gusts & swears like a sailor
Capsized in the ark of old

My diaspora, an exile self-imposed

Then the sky clears...
Miraculously

 Blossoming into sequined sequencings

Their sparkly ticklings  pulsating

with the spin of our opulent orb

A vibrant luster
Saturates the never-ebbing flow

In the purity of
Your beauty eternal

And saved by the net of your trust

Once again I am made whole...

The stars are mesmers, you know...

They hypnotize us and have us do their bidding...

But I'll gladly dissolve
The iron in my will 

To savor the forever of Eden's flavor

In the skin of your fleshy apple.



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