Tuesday, May 27, 2008

praise: a good poem

a good poem

catches you off guard
and skims the edge of you like a 
finger traces the outline of your knee,
hits you like the whiff of 
electricity before a storm,
hunts you with pheromones, 
strikes while you aren't looking

isn't complete
until you fall away exhausted 
and satisfied, 
wouldn't exist without 
the dance of two elements:
the object of your desire, admiration, rage 
and you, bewildered and reaching

holds your face in its hands
and stares at you, unflinching
as if to take it all in, naked and 
unobstructed
unabashed, unafraid.

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