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Serpent’s Lair

How wicked the tricks of your serpent’s lair
a lingual place of wild mango magic behind caliente lips
where a supple sensualist lies in seductive ambush
rum on the rocks spices flesh bed of your taste buds
libation temptation whets my wish like a knife on stone
medieval my want to stir my tongue in your firewater

my fingers a captivated trellis 
jealous and zealous  carefree and careless 
find their way to getting lost in your midnight curls
S curves wind from devil depths to bind
aroused fingers  —coiled accomplices
hold me captive as I’m pulled in with hooked fangs
piercing my heart deep  piercing my soul sweet 
eyes of winter blue skies belie your stealth
l i p s  heat-seeking as you place your face to mine 
tongue flicks for a taste  ah flirts with lust-basted taste
yes  yesss  press your whispering mouth on mine

my mouth blooms like a dusk-loving moonflower 
throat white against night  my breath your honeysuckle
unholy hunger unleashed  a famished desperation 
my desperation so full of babydoll flame and ash
your jaw unhinges to swallow whole my fire and ire

oh bend me like a willow in the tongue-tie of your kiss
break me  take me  make me buy the bliss in your hiss
feed me fantasy I need to cede lace without chains as
hush-winged-talons scythe bloodstreams of my dreams
bleed me in the weed greed of your sidewinding river
till you shed my love the way a constrictor sheds skin

I crave to make this snake my feather boa —to fly
moonlight a raptor of rapture instead of one captured

Copyright © Susan Ashley

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