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Now

read this aloud, mind the punctuation,

and, finally,

enjoy.

 

 

amethyst eyes alight with nighttime lightning, clapping lashes spark ruminations rumbling across the savannah of memory imprinting in me the afterimage of Now.   Now, Now makes me hers -- though i’m more willing a captive than she imagines: imprisoned in the present, tasting the electricity resounding in this soundless cell () deafeningly solid --

she grooves before me.

slowly rolls me

me rolls slowly  

molasses boiling tongues twisting towards me

ba-da doom ba-doom doom doom.

 

i don’t know if it’s the fireflies caught in midnight-amber jars suspended by strands of suicidal curls tumbling down the pitch of your back,

or

your touch, come tentatively, but nonetheless titillating, for it softly pleas me to get grounded, stay a while in the timbre of warm fireside conversation and cocoa,

or

your teacup of a navel compelling i to lift laughter, fish up reminiscences, and transcend time,

or

when you lean close and lick me with your eyelash, as if a butterfly’s kiss,

or

your soft voice smoothly singing songs of four-lettered blues .   .     .

 

.     .   . my god you’re gorgeous.

 

dance with me, Now     for two more turns of the moon let’s defy posterity and traverse the curves of each other’s words and purge our selves of self     let’s anesthetize Now, marinate in the moment, savor the silence and become sap-trapped fossils left for the future     let’s live a lifetime together in two more turns of the moon, Now,     so that I may memorize every quark of every electron of every neutron of every proton of every atom of every ion of every molecule of every cell of every sinew of every tissue of every ***** and every system of all your beauty, Now, you are perfect because you are am is and will never be anywhere else but here and nothing else but Now.

 

feel me?

   feel her?

 

      feel here?

 

 

Now.

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Feb 2, 2010
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