desire carved a depression
in earth, filling it with
one blind rain.
a flustering pool melting
to the specifications of
your body.
long in advance, careless
come careless drift of you.
such slow steps, heels to
settling toes, underbrush and
trees of all age part your way.
in a wood of no return, silk
more royal than its purple
ran for miles behind its proud
rest of you.
damp breezes curled round
your ******* to whiteout sustenance.
your hair, a netted rainbow combed
by newer, and happier accidents
of color.
your buttocks the preponderance
of the whitest white, the blackest
black magic--fit to rattle a warlocks
hand off his wrist.
your thighs, the long walk of adoration--
before what knees could kneel, and
strong arms embrace.
your back, fierce protectress--spine to your
secret, indelible to patient lover.
now brighter than foreshadow...
Aphrodite comes to a halt, baring her face
three hundred and sixty degrees to the
wood.
every bird swallowing its song, she
face-plants into her pool with outspread arms.
then the sun's first burst--
rouge tints, water alive to
wetness.
the cleft of her peach, the rite of passage
submerged.