By Madison
Date: 24 January 2000

lickerish

sweet twisted sugar
long slender limbs 
laid out on our bed 
of leaves

soft green blades of earth
still wet from morning orbit
a shuddering through the hand
that gripped to mine

and led me under 
wings of trees
foliage draped like dark feathers
above our heads

our claws were tender
digging with the gentlest care
to find our selves inside 
the other. 




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M Madison
24 jan 2000

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