Possessed
“Possessed”
The scarlet of her heart opens
where she blooms deepest
from the cuts
of Past’s insanity
her windows
full green undressed
him, in his mind;
he confessed,
in quiet reflection,
he had lost his head
irrevocably -
and taking his brush
dipped it in
fresh rouge cadmium
across her throat he wrote
the words on her warm skin
in his mind, soft as cream velvet,
“Possessed”,
across her heart he prints,
“Here Circe’s Seduction Flows”
in his mind,
she is a
witch goddess poet,
words from her
virtual bewitching...
flow
sensually he guides
his artisan strokes
from the bud of
her ripe breast
traversing the valley
to her waist, Sisyphus
glides over her thigh,
he plays her
like a harp for a while
caresses her dark hair
attentive, leaning in close
breathing over her his breath
whispering like a lover
over her story
he paints
the
Life in Her
full
Red
“volupte liberti ad infiniti”
are the final words
he writes
on her
he is possessed
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
“Her”/ Rosenfeld
https://youtu.be/zCPVcWCgWCE
“I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.”
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
“the smear of red
on the seashell lining
of your skin is belle poésie”
Avijeet Das
“In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.”
Chloe Thurlow,The Secret Life of Girls
“Eurydice sits alone on a red bed.
She has flaming red hair,
so flaming
that you can't see anything else of her,
much less anything else around her.
She takes up too much space.
Also she's mad.
Which has nothing to do with anything.
She lives in her own world
because she makes the whole world hers.”
Kathy Acker,Eurydice in the Underworld
Artist: Jordi Diaz Alama
https://www.diazalama.com
Artist: Mitch Griffiths
https://www.mitchgriffiths.com
volupte liberti ad infiniti /
Latin/translation.
Corsican/translation.
Sensuously/Sensually
"The terms share the root sens-, which means to arouse the senses. Sensual has referred to gratifying carnal, especially sexual, senses since before 1425. Sensuous is believed to have been created by John Milton in 1641 to mean relating to the senses instead of the intellect without the sexual connotation."
"Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean"
A different kind of hero.
"Le Mythe de Sisyphe"/Camus, 1942. (English Trans. 1955).
Chapter - The Artist and His Time, Page 122.
Chapter - The Absurd Man, Page 43. [Opening quote is a corker. ;)]
Chapter - The Absurd Man, Don Juanism, Page 45
https://postarchive.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/myth-of-sisyphus-and-other-essays-the-albert-camus.pdf
Salut(e), crazy cats with sharp claws and pigeons that coo.;)
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