jmaa el-fnaa

hold still … eventide - I am a capricious cad among wraiths waltzing with a mop in a Marrakesh courtyard - catching stars as they drip with waxy and wild wonder into the braids of my maudlin noose tightening … jangling, dangling - rose gold anklets, (wrapped 'round leggy perfection) shimmer their hammered facets as they kick burnished smoke into toroidal hoops with raw regard spinning, table-top to a Chaabi chant … rough-hewn candles wag their fiery tongues to beckon the darkness close ... notes from a punji weave mystery thru the heavy heat - Henna-striped hands cradling a bottle, jade green as the glassy white flowers gush their cold, gold bounty down a curvy thigh … wetly wrapping an unblemished capuccino calf, Perrier-Jouët trickles off tender toes to plop warm on my tantalized tongue … I kiss the fuchsia-daubed nails to show proper veneration then spin back to the murky music mop-handle lover in tow … down to the soft, spinning tie-dyed rugs and pillows I surrender all to the callow flesh there wanting ... willing - her hair, hide and ebon eyes dark as delirium while the brass-headed snake-of-a-hookah waits for a kiss … long draws bring dizzy dreams and hypnotic swirls from the lamp - flowery maple aromas and an opiate nirvana coiling around my cares lost as a languid lamb to soft skin and sweet … enchantment. ~ ( Jemaa el-Fnaa Square in Marrakesh, Morocco, is one of the most active and exciting places on earth, declared by UNESCO as a "Masterpiece of World Heritage", still largely unchanged for over a thousand years ) - rewrite -