Because You Took

      Because you took me to bed, I love you. 
      Because your sex wraps around me 
      And my body falls out of myself 
      Like a flower, I love you. 
5     Wisdom doubles itself like a germ, 
      Adding body to body. Your eye 
      Adds itself to my eye, and we go on seeing. 
      New things, new newness. 
      Cicadas, windfall, our braiding bodies 
10    Tender, joyful, awake in each other,  
      Simple as forgetting. 
      A slow-crawl cross, holy and mossy. 
      Hesitant as a craving bee I explore you completely, 
      Exhausting the tassels of sunlight, 
15    Removing valuable essences even by the powdery moon. 
      And its lonely magnet unites us, crests us. 
      Stale and silly, 
      I return to the gorgeous orchard of your arms. 
      Your arms tensile and lively as if managing a sailboat. 
20    The heavy sail red, full of bloods, wombs. 
      But agile anyway in the universe that blows it 
      Before your face, in the front of the dawn 
      Your hair whipping!

 

From the collection "The Rose Lasso"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.