afloat.
man and woman
unfamiliar in time are
lost in the swells of harvest
eyes as steady as bulldozers
a body within a body
(is lighter than you think)
mouth cries are murky and
euphoric like smoke on glass
and
two bodies
living as a single body
are a sea in a city of salt
wrinkled and impermanent
(as angels and rose gardens)
he opens her body
like an accidental butterfly
red lips consecrate the sun
The Used Life 
Beautiful and thought-provoking lines:
“wrinkled and impermanent
(as angels and rose gardens)”
Sensual poem. 🌹
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Thank you, Michele. I’m happy you enjoyed it.
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The form, the pace, the images … it all makes you want to dig back in for more, to get at the marrow of this beautiful poem.
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Thank you! Your kind words are much appreciated. Happy you think highly of the poem.
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I almost forgot. I love the picture too 🙂
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Ah, thank you! I can’t take credit for that one, I’m afraid. Got it on Depositphotos…but I very much enjoy the artist’s work.
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The last line. Wow.
The image is beautiful.
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Thank you very much.
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Pleasure 😊
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Surreal and beautiful. And such original images. This is wonderful.
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Thank you! I had started out wanting to write something else entirely, and this where the images led me.
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True work of art… the last lines… ayayay, beautiful.
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Thank you so much.
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This is a spiritually erotic poem🥰😍
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Beautiful last lines 🙂 poetically intimate… this also reminds one of yin and yang connection in nature.. bees and flowers pollination
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Thank you so much. And I think that’s a great observation about the connection with nature, even yin and yang energies.
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Quite sensual
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Thank you.
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” like an accidental butterfly”. ❤
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Ah, that’s my favorite line, too. Thanks for the comment.
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No problem at all; it was beautiful imagery 🙂
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beautiful
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Thank you.
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