<span class="right-menu">Nesting for centuries as each other's eggs Pickled by reverence and darkening appetites Throughlines nestled in that sweat held atop their hips Crinoline-banked rivers running amber waves</span> <span class="right-menu">Reducing, reusing, and relishing their every fluid Down-crown midtown-soiled fountain for this pet Peeled from the growing sun-magnet as roses need kissing From their dam to their ankles, I yearn brick by brick</span> <span class="right-menu">To break my lover's battle toward the victory of release As the stenography pool directs our court to applaud Their treatment and my submission to their brass-tacked will So-called via the pulls upon my leash; once, twice, or thrice</span> <span class="right-menu">Each day can be Halloween with my soul in their grip Squeezing hours from our lust as a funneling digression Of rockets exhausting any given sky above our boudoir Everything is a blessing when even Lucifer recognizes the radiance</span> ![[Duane-Michals_The-Illuminated-Man_1968.jpg##bgimg]]