January 2001 / Volume Two / Issue One | |||||||||
Carly Sachs | |||||||||
Conversations I want to wrap your naked body around me like talisim crown you my king David Penetrate me by rebuilding my body spread my arms, press flat against me Put yourself inside me lie still Let my pulse resound in the hollows of your body now let the conversation begin We will sway deliberately like wings of butterflies First just the edges of our folds and tips skim across my body like a pebble tossed in a well Until my body swallows yours Then place petals of sage and rose across my breasts and legs and give me a bracha And if you will let me I will crucify you Bind you to the bedposts with my sins and you will give me yours Together we will drink each other's blood from the chalice let me take communion from your lips I will grow like ivy around your limbs we will make love with the window open Letting each other's gods blow across our bodies until there is nothing but one. |
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