Songs of Ani — 12
Ani pulls stars from the night sky
and with a frozen stare says
"Here, I will build my universe around you"
and she smears a galaxy
of flickering pinpoint promises
across the primordial dust of desire
floating in shadowy streams of light
through the haze of my room
and when her Ptolemaic cosmos
is complete
she comes to the bed
and with eager fingers
undresses my brittle body
and ties me to the bedposts
then with her measured art
she tattoos my flat and paling skin
with a map of Bedlam
around where her mouth coaxes
my arousal into a trembling tower
which she inscribes with the name Babel
"The chaotic centre where lesser women will come"
she says
"and plead for your love in tongues"
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You must hate it when she does that!
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