Sunday, December 22, 2024

The pink of it Oct. 19, 2024

 

The sky swirls

With the pink tint

Of sunset clouds

And I make out

Her shape,

Her cheeks here,

Her lips there,

Other pieces

Of her anatomy

Scattered across

The horizon,

The ceiling of

The Sistine Chapel

Only it is not God’s hand

I see, but hers,

My cheeks flushed

As deeply as the clouds,

Over what my brain

Conjures up,

Zappa being right about

The dirtiest part of the body,

Though maybe even he

Could not quite

Come to grips

With this,

How potent a concoction

My brain can brew

When I put my mind to it,

Stretching my fingers

To touch the infinite,

To what I know

I can never again touch

For real,

The pink of it

Glorious inside of me

And always will be


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