Turns a soft pirouette of finger end Along the ridges of discs that make the spine And I mark a period to end the sentence Written upon soft skin Smooth as a relaxed sigh that escapes parted lips In a gentle exhale of seconds ticked off One check (tick) Two check ( tock) I scribe to small of back where hollow forms Letting tongue taste the salt of sweat glistening Before a rise of hip curves to please eyes Or palms that might erase dark windows staring back At the blank gaze of face lost inside The mirage of dreams
Three check (tick) Four check ( clock tocked seconds rhyme)
With vowels moaned to the whisper of poems Glyphed a slow summons of wrists gently turned To show the veins that lie beneath as I bled softly Along the nerves a simple thread of heartbeat Rhythms show how a verse ends A metaphor for the ribs caged And stone to hold apart the looking glass world Of Cheshire grins upon lips wet with wry spittle Licked by tip of tongue
Breathes soft once upon times To inhale the scent of amaryllis bloom Gracing glass of its own with fair heads bloom Petals of delicate hue opened vulnerable to bruise
Five check ( tick ) Six check ( toggle along mark of hands the tock)
I scribe soft to the end of line and pirouette fingers end Marking a period again to end the simple words Brushed upon a supple velum And begin Seven check (tick)