Jean Marble Poet Free verse

Digesting Affection

I swallow my secrets,
sharp little shards of the bizarre
that would gossip of my weaknesses
if allowed to converse 
with the light.

One by one, 
they scratch along
a cervical bridge 
between my heart and mind

before being accumulated
in a churning pit 
of reason and conscience
that constantly folds self into self
and manipulates the flavors
of my life.

I never intended to invite you
into my sacred archipelagos,
I meant to sample the sweetness 
of your flattery,
the ambrosia of the forbidden
and metabolize your motives later

but you defy my volcano
and oxidize in my stomach

an embryonic gallstone
feeding on the amniotic bile
that disintegrates
my most caustic emotions.

You could extinguish my hunger;
the lightless, empty craving 
for content-edness
and alleviate the peptic erosion
of my islands
by accepting their idiosyncrasies. 

But I fear you will overfill me,
nauseate me with your revolutionary rites
and that I will regurgitate 
the occult within.

Yet, I can't suppress the craving 
for more crumbs of your affection.

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Frank Sinatra January 6, 2010 at 10:43 PM There is so much that is great in this poem. I think it would have been stronger, too, if you would have expanded on maybe just two of your imagery themes. When you have so many different images all in one poem it's hard to establish a certain flow or general connection. Well done, and thank you :)