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Siren song on a lonely morning

It’s the early morning that does it for me

 

I don’t mean to seek it

But I am sought in these quiet empty-full hours -

All or nothing out-with-the-bath-water seclusion.

 

(Delusions of liqueur

cocksure

Every flavor of azure)

 

Oh god what I would give to extend the great expanse of 4am, ribbon slick and taut as a ******

 

And me, warm and creative.

 

It’s the early morning that does it for me

 

I’m staying up with a song.

 

-Call-

 

Respond

 

Eyes and lips and abandoned ships

Mirages of **** below long, fluted throats

Gliding between notes

and me too

 

Ready to drown you.

 

(It’s the early morning that does it for me)

 

As you give yourself over to the caresses of the mistress

and dream of flying over perfect fields of wheat

 

and then land

 

and then wake

 

≈furrowed≈

 

disappointed to find

a cold pillow where a head should be asleep

 

I release my held breath and meet you

Half way

 

I was singing

I say

And collapse in a heap

 

Wet hair

Bare feet

It’s dawning and day

 

Closing my eyes

Sunset at sunrise

Holding onto a secret key

 

I dream of the sea

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Written by
elizabeth-kelly
Published
Nov 6, 2021
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A nice dream

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#siren#song#fantasy#night#early#ocean#sailors#sinners
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