Ecstasy
Transgress
Ecstasy
Transgress
Then the heat goes down warm
Through a canopy to silky laced trunk
A perceptible breeze pulled down
Pinkish red a lonely petal flower
From the blooming cluster crown
Abandoned by the sun
Caressed by the gentle wind
Into the cool pond of tenderness
Tiptoeing moonbeams touching
The soft reflected fleshy fringes
Summer’s hump is upon us
Lush green soon’d be red and golden
A simulacrum of love’s forbidden fruit
Hidden a delicately furled pink rose
Waiting passion surrendered absolute
Immersed deep a dreamlike longing
Drown in a fiery indulgent Bacchus offering
Entwined touch me more sans satiety
Lost in the full senses of sweet sensual frenzy
Deep breaths held let go in Ambrosial ecstasies
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(c)NDR8.7.2018
Photo: ndr Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham NC
Poem inspired by Jenifer A Crowder’s “Consumed”.
