(from her to ravish meaning ravine On the other side
artifice slumbers in the green. The shadow follows hour
by hour hollow and gloomy and which call me forth)
……………………………….grafted onto the sentence
o a long time distant to hang on my belly obscure parallel
images and tattoos age suggestive of the fingernail grazing
the thigh the valley get turned on


the body gentle with daring
drug to take away her meaning
her skin of orange and olive
her texture of assailing couple
(you underline them with a stroke
like the bed under their weight
their pleasure)

…………..and plunge down
and so body to body in the tuft
her spreading out in vegetation
right to them
the point of consent and
affirmation

little magic boxes…………….


the skin a free grammar
of silence canvas of impressions of
representation
fire: artifice a distance
the true skin strips off the vowels
illustrate
the soft sponges of the fine cob


the definite connection that exists
between ravishing meaning from her and
magic boxes

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A ROD FOR A HANDSOME PRICE swells
(but)
since the grafts
gently the words run
along it quietly.