tongue

your tongue
is not a new form of ice

but rather
seeping into mine like a
thin purple snake, saturated
in shallow folds and leftover coffee
and the string
of pineapples and daisies


they have stained your tongue
the color of plums,

and it meets with mine

though my tongue is
so unlike yours,
covered in sunshine
and the wings of faeries,
tiger eyes and gold rubies

singing their songs


as we dance like
birds.

this is a strange world,
with your black beret
perched atop your
raven head like the
simplest of songs

and my hair
dances in the wind,
notes of an invisible
flute surround us
and our tongues
join in foreign agreement
to make a treaty, to forge
within a fire, to touch briefly
before one of us
is burnt to ash of twin skeletons.


this is a strange world indeed.

• On Saturday, July 26, 2008, blue (1606) wrote:
  
  indeed.
  
  
• On Saturday, July 26, 2008, carlosjackal (1798) wrote:
  
  *ninja-chop* Socky-rawr!
  
  
• On Monday, July 21, 2008, carlosjackal (1798) wrote:
  
  Poetry is something you still do and won't leave you..*raises glass* And Hooray! to that :) Excellent piece. You haven't lost your flow one bit =)
  
  
• On Thursday, July 17, 2008, Ainsof (2120) wrote:
  
  gorgeousness... you are poetry incarnate... regardless of what Bukowski said of the word... poet is your title, for poetry flows from you like no river on this earth; you've such the uncanny ability to make those pointed few words explode into so many unique images, so much tucked into one line... very beyond gorgeousness. I've soo missed your work, your voice is so true, and you words impeccably chosen and arranged. *bows before elysian sunflower gifted with words*
  
  
• A former member wrote: I'm lining up at the kissing booth with a fifty in my hand, splendid descriptions from a-z.
  
  
• On Saturday, July 12, 2008, Morbid_insanity (127) wrote:
  
  i loved the nature imagery in this, and the way this flowed. and a beautiful description of the whole occurrence. wondrously written. -josh
  
  
• On Saturday, July 12, 2008, saintedmad (1425) wrote:
  
  what a smooth finale; a simmering incandescent thing you always bring us. .. .. . .wonderful to have you back and posting!
  
  
• On Saturday, July 12, 2008, veingo (458) wrote:
  
  Oh Bethany. I have missed your writing so very much. This is as touching, and beautiful as ever. ^V^
  
  
• On Saturday, July 12, 2008, siGht in toucH (449) wrote:
  
  this is beauftiul :d in many ways very very brilliant -symph-
  
  
• On Saturday, July 12, 2008, Sparrow (163) wrote:
  
  Indeed. Well done. :)