Trilogy in the Spaces - Afternoon

Trilogy in the Spaces - Afternoon

Sept 15, 2018

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Afternoon.

Afternoon September heat

Oh…  a fly buzzes

Chipmunks have gone completely still

From their early morning rampage scavenging.

Gently chirps and cricket rasps

Bees and other insects suckle the end of pollen

In the goldenrod.

Leaves of poplar shimmer in the sunlight

Maple leaves tremble in the hint of breeze

Weed plants brown and heavy with seed

Wave incredulous that the end is nigh.

Salty sticky sweat on all my skin

Sun rays steep autumn hint angles

Burn one side of my face

Tear through the canopy

Of oak leaves and pine needles

Streaking vibrant light in tearing

Across the forest floor.

A whisper in the wind she says,

I am cool now, in gentle caresses,

You’ve done your work this fecund season

Fruit nuts seed

Now let me sooth you, rest

Breathe my velvet love for you

Treasure me in this moment

While I love you in my leaving

I linger

So suckle from me

Wet lips mingle my sweat on your tongue

Let your seed too be mine in me

Come

Again

Again

Come

Forget your sorrows sadness be oblivion…

While I whisper to myself my eyes lifted to the sky

In silent lovesong

Wracked with senseless pain

Oh suckle me

I must soon be gone.

And the sunlight cools a little bit upon my skin

And the intensity of light shifts from yellow

Toward pure clarity

And the wind whispers in the forest slip toward silence

Clouds linger unmoving

Crescent moon appears in blue wash

An anaesthetic begins to lift

For a moment

Pure stillness

Abandonment

All upheld in pregnant pause

Between love and end of life

Light and Dark.

Grace suspended moment fusion of eternal ecstasy.