Excavation
We unearth the other bodies, having
buried our own. We contemplate
bone, buttock and lip; the rise of the
back into the neck, the slope of the glute,
the dark velvet slide of the tongue.
Inveterate archeologists of the kiss,
we compare his thighs to this, your calf
to the one in the moonlight that night
at the beach. In the dust it all seems
clear how the bodies intertwine, as if
they were dolls made from many
different doll parts; this one beautiful
eye battered blue, the muscled arm
potent with vein, the fine chest and
nipple now licked and slept upon,
to be remembered in some far distant
summer: Oh yes, oh yes, I had him.
buried our own. We contemplate
bone, buttock and lip; the rise of the
back into the neck, the slope of the glute,
the dark velvet slide of the tongue.
Inveterate archeologists of the kiss,
we compare his thighs to this, your calf
to the one in the moonlight that night
at the beach. In the dust it all seems
clear how the bodies intertwine, as if
they were dolls made from many
different doll parts; this one beautiful
eye battered blue, the muscled arm
potent with vein, the fine chest and
nipple now licked and slept upon,
to be remembered in some far distant
summer: Oh yes, oh yes, I had him.
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Author's Note
Love is often exhumed.
Other stories by Philip F. Clark
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Inveterate archeologists of the kiss
* nicely lyrics, philip
lyrical* I mean
Dark and lyrical and that last line really nails it. "*"
Perfect--both in sentiment and execution.*
Macabre, as appropriate to many relationships.
"In the dust it all seems
clear"
Nice!
"the dark velvet slide of the tongue" -- a perfect line.
This is my favorite kind of poetry. Dark, sensuous, ambiguous. I love it. ***