ever so s l o w l y And she looks at me like she doesn't know the way her body curls like a snake around itself, cooling. ever so s l o w l y until the gloved hand is intangable smoke. And she reaches for me like a gold lioness back of my neck in her teeth inside her candlelit circle. ever so s l o w l y until our eyes meet freeing ourselves. And she says goodbye like a storm's retreat her rains flying onward away, hair the breeze gaze the rain. ever so s l o w l y until I'm left silanced and wet. <--- back * home * next --->