Body Language

Your muscles, limbs and torso think, and speak –

mercilessly delicate and unapologetic,

they regale, declare – gesturally fostering

opinions past the brink of the acceptable: too

possible to be believed; articulations far beyond

the tolerably bright: they weaken me – deceive:

I cannot fight their lexicons and libraries –

conjunctions: glinting, slick – soft juncture of the lips –

tight linen skin – swift prepositions: flicking wrist,

translucent blink – the diction of a pinkness like

a mist when fingers snap me out of stasis, script

the air – the gilding care with which they lavish

purely fleshly points: the tender awkward syntax

of the shoulders – jointed to arcane vocabularies

in the slender spine – in shy subordination

to the sweet inclining theme of you, the wash

of wafting clauses in the dream of you: completely

there – beyond all reach. You ruin speech.





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