Sunday, January 11, 2009

the candy man can

vacuum::

I.
sideways on the floor
like snake, snaking
move slow as thick 
water
across
cooling sand.

yet that 
friction, frictive
slide of grain 
against
wetted grain--

thus at the base
gather
tiny sparks of 
heat.


II.
i make it
up past 
your leg.

sweat drops fast,
abandoned,
but tongue
tight 
to its motion:

lapped
circle, coil

like flourescent 
light.  lighting
layer over
smooth wet
layer.


--
i compose you in
colors 
under cover of 
darkness:
reflection of a 
blue sign
on wet sand--
caramel
dye-saturated,
plucking
memoried pinks,
smoothing
magnolia petal
hard.

i reserve red
but red only.

do nothing to me,
sweetheart.
lie back.
let me tell you
your story.

3.
i'll watch the dew fall,
roll 
down your
skin.
watch the rising
sun
turn your back 
to gold and 
black.

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