Elyse Hart
three wants
i play you like a prayer;
sparse cries thrown
in eclipsed desires,
floral hoop mirrored
thick as infinity,
no want left unturned
like river stones
sparse cries thrown
in eclipsed desires,
floral hoop mirrored
thick as infinity,
no want left unturned
like river stones
i cry you like a stone;
river prayers drowned
in floral desires,
hooped eclipse thrown
twisting form,
a want dead ends
like a painted mirror
river prayers drowned
in floral desires,
hooped eclipse thrown
twisting form,
a want dead ends
like a painted mirror
i drown you like a flower;
painted eclipse unturned
in river desires,
dead-end hoop floats
holding plane,
two wants mirrored
like praying criers
painted eclipse unturned
in river desires,
dead-end hoop floats
holding plane,
two wants mirrored
like praying criers
set to smolder
renounce my gladness and toy with tinder
lose grains of sand, gain beach flea swarms
sip with milk pleasure warmed with amaretto
his fingers were my motto—
a badge of honor worn at ends of wrists.
at the end of fall came winter, except it
remained temperate
lose grains of sand, gain beach flea swarms
sip with milk pleasure warmed with amaretto
his fingers were my motto—
a badge of honor worn at ends of wrists.
at the end of fall came winter, except it
remained temperate
spoke with voice melted—a heavy task
made of glass and two sticks
made of glass and two sticks
his gladness and hunger set to smolder,
my seas in their flight, a path untraveled—
dirt unpacked and unraveled
my seas in their flight, a path untraveled—
dirt unpacked and unraveled
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