By chris
Date: 2006 May 13
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Night Flower

I.

Learning you was like learning Bach -
seemingly easy at first, utterly beautiful -
and I marveled at the simplicity of each
note
rising from the harpsichord like clear, white
smoke.
Then I found worlds waiting, hiding in the
shadows cast by the cadenza, the negative
spaces between the last sustained C and
the terrible blooming beauty
of the passaglia
and how I could just touch it before it raced
away from me like sunset
in winter.

II.

I open the blinds and moonlight floods in,
bathing your spread thighs in light -
off-white cinnamon, semisweet mocha
kissed by me,
kissed by night. Your hair smells like
lavender, the air like sex and strawberry and
you open like a flower that blooms once every
hundred years -
and then evolution
accelerated,
leaving us breathless, exhilarated,
and you suddenly found ways to do it
again
and again.