Breath

Heat waves cavort around your face
transforming it before my eyes
watching in fertile silence...
... through faceless days of scorching torture reeling
into darkness, ballet of countless veils - subtle need, vibrant with passion of
the soil,
and not waiting for dawn
a rooster is a muezzin crowing wordless prayer,
With their humming, plainsong tires, taxis thread the night
and leaves are strumming, plucking off-pitch wails
from air-guitars of searing depths unknown
while you are transformed - within me - though I know not
how,
nor do you, nor do the taxis, leaves, the rooster, the guitars...
... the musky breath of living pirouettes darkly through your hair...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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January 23, 2012 at 8:40 PM
welcome to poetry soup my friend....if you have a strong stomach....stop by my poetical attempts....I had one of those little white pills and an energy drink today....be warned! Is that your real name?? Is it pronounced like roolf?
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