A Dream // October
George Shiras, White-tailed Doe (1898)
On Gods & Monsters
A Dream // October
My Dear One
Can you Conceive of a Love
That you don’t
Have to Earn?
More,
A Sacred Inheritance
Waiting for You
To Come of Age?
To
See
With
Open Eyes
Wide,
Like
When You Were
A Gapped-Tooth Child
All Love
Never Knowing Fear?
Waiting for You
In the Warm
Languidly
That is Woman?
A Plush-Lipped Lover
Not
Of Your Body
But Of
Your Sacred Peace?
Soft Haired
Long-Legged
Doe
Gazing at You
From the Stream?
Knowing
That There Is No Arrow
Only Presence
Only Love?
Eyes
Soft
Like Your Mother’s
Before You Knew Her?
Earthen
Like the Moss
At Your Feet
Let Me
Kiss
Each Step
Let Me
Wash
Them
With Only
My Hair
Wild Waves
Abound
Plentiful
Made
In Service
To This Purpose
As Mary
Commands Me
My Love, Do You Not See?
For What is There, Better
For a Woman to Pray to?
Softness Begets Softness
As Heir Begets Heir
What is there
More Holy
Than Man?
What is there
More Sacred
Than the Covenant
Of Man and Woman?
Not a Desecration
My Darling
But a Benediction
As Simple, As Sublime
As
You are The One
I Choose
To Meet God
With
Cradle Me
In the Soft Moss
My Luminous body
Of Youth
Pure,
Color of the Pearls
Your Mother used to wear
Curved
A cure
By the shape
Of your Blessed Mouth
Place Me,
Reverently
About the fallen leaves
That my Aliveness
Returns to Me
As the Animal of Me
Receives You
Undulating,
Under your touch
Besides
The River
Of my Ancestors
I smell the Autumn
Upon Us
As You,
Upon Me
All Smoke
Cinnamon
Clove
Tobacco
Smell of the Darkness
That comes Early
And lasts Long
Let Me,
Taste the Air
Bright and Sharp
In my Wide
Woman’s Mouth
You,
Who Silence Me
With Such Divinity
You,
Who I Could
Follow Forever
You,
Who I Desire
Endlessly
Not Because
You are Faultless
But Because
You are so Divinely Human
You,
Who Long to See
And
I
Who Long to Share
The Waters of God
Through Which
I have Swam
For all Eternity
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