Mastodon Dentist – Issue 13
You Alone
Forsake her not.
She says she loves you,
that your love was meant to be
and is, of course, a destiny;
the way the rain unfurls the worms
is like the way you touch her heart.
The crickets start to protest,
raising doubt-thickened voices,
and the frogs burp their unrest --
but all she does is sigh and say
that the chirping songs in cacophony
remind her in remediated memory
of the way your eyes gently sing,
charming her with your constancy.
Forsake her not.
Don't forget
how the greens of her eyes match
the shaken awe of forest firs,
how her shy cattail fingers touch your spine.
And then, how she loves her shoulders
but never bares them, never shares them
with anyone--
except you.
You alone get the gift of kissing them,
so do.
Forsake her not.
She says she loves you,
that your love was meant to be
and is, of course, a destiny;
the way the rain unfurls the worms
is like the way you touch her heart.
The crickets start to protest,
raising doubt-thickened voices,
and the frogs burp their unrest --
but all she does is sigh and say
that the chirping songs in cacophony
remind her in remediated memory
of the way your eyes gently sing,
charming her with your constancy.
Forsake her not.
Don't forget
how the greens of her eyes match
the shaken awe of forest firs,
how her shy cattail fingers touch your spine.
And then, how she loves her shoulders
but never bares them, never shares them
with anyone--
except you.
You alone get the gift of kissing them,
so do.
Amaris Gutierrez-Ray
"Charles Lilly and the Plaid Cat in Wonderland"
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