By slug
Date: 2 October 2000

Seraphim

(10-2-2000)

The girl...
      (the seraphim with a cherubs smile)
            who rolls over onto the boy,

and shocks her angel with the thoughts that spill out of her lips

                             and he smiles.
his lips like....
            lips like...
over done metaphors and run-down images that will never do them justice...

                  and eyes,
          and a whole body of things worth mentioning...
                 comparing to summer and rain
                     and the night
                         and the stars
                     and yet nothing quite fits...
              and nothing quite compares
                      because it's all the same
                   and excitingly new
every time is different and this is no exception
                   because I’m still wanting
and the fingers I won't describe leave trails of happy on my skin.
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