nymph


summoned from a distant sky
i watch her nimble shadow fly

bent at the knees
kiss my cheek
kiss my hand
as if it were meant

for me to feel these
lips on my flesh
down to the bone
in the earth now fresh
with the delicate
angeldust
she dared to gather
in her magic wand
so beautiful
so bountiful

lion leaps through tigerlilies
jump through rings but how far will she
lead me on this endless plain?
do say again...

the sweetest love
the pixie dust
the fairy tales for old and young
crown the queens
and kiss their feet
and turn them any color

golden; silver
smitten guiltless
blithe and milking all the happiness
from the breast from which we forage

summoned from a distant sky
i watch her graceful shadow
steal my somber heart alight
again she disappears into the night

(for Tiff)




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