Contiguity

by Melissa   Jul 15, 2012


You just look at me
and I am whelmed in a pool
of melted hazel.
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I feel you blinking
over the curved nature of
my spine's wild angle.
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You just beckon me
to the maze of your body;
the scent of April.
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When you tussle my
leaves, your fingers find the length
of my skin's marvel.
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You just lay down still
and your heartbeats persuade my
nose to your navel.
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I'd like to be your
earthly bed, sheets strewn about
all mussed and playful.
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Undressed to the rain,
map on your nape, blinds agape
your thighs astraddle.
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If only I'd cave
like soil nuzzling into
a lover's temple.
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I followed my thumb
from ostriches twine, you kick,
no longer able.
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So ripe with promise,
your hands offer warmth as though
I were malleable.
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Knee to your chapel
summoned to your dirt, as if
you too, were fickle.
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My body behaves
like a sleepy tree, weeping
with disavowal.
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When no more welcomed,
You scrubbed off my handwriting
you would have swallowed.

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By The Prince and Melissa

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  • 12 years ago

    by ghosts in bloom

    First of all: You two are so talented! How nice to have two of my favorite poets pen something :) You work well together; this piece flows and I appreciate the effort put in to using complimentary words and sounds. The slant rhyme is delicious, and some of the images you painted are truly beautiful.

    Not sure if I'm putting to much personal stock into how I'm interpreting this - but it's very bittersweet and sad to me. Despite the intimate, sentimental tone in the first half - I take that this is a casual encounter, for at least one party. Love the use of 'malleable,' 'fickle,' and 'disavowal.' I'm also growing fonder of your use of opposing images and emotions tied to certain words, such as with 'chapel' and 'dirt' in the third to last haiku.

    The last one threw me off a little, it's not my favorite. However as a whole this is a wonderful, sensual, intriguing piece.

    My absolute favorite bit:

    Undressed to the rain,
    map on your nape, blinds agape
    your thighs astraddle.

    Brilliant! Congrats on the win. As in at life ;)

  • 12 years ago

    by Hellon

    I've always found collabs to be a little strange and....very seldom do I comment on them. To me they normally feel disjointed but this one doesn't and I think it's because you are talking to each other and don't try to disguise that fact?

    It's also very eloquently written and hints but doesn't cross any borders...sensual without any smut.

    Well done guys....enjoyed it!

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