Heart To Heart
Posted - 08/04/2006 : 12:14:43
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Hold it in your hand.
Look into the dark tunnels of it arms,
or are they ears? Peer into those inviting
depths; look right, then left and leap
into the warm embrace.
Spit when it taunts you.
Watch the cider-scented trail
mark out each cut and graze,
scars that lay like an A to Z
around the atrium, adding to the haze.
Let it lie against your chest
cuddling the frantic, fibrous wire
pacing repetitively on the back of beats.
Getting sloshed on the slashes of cherry -
an animated caricature - that wash against its face.
Clench it, crunch it, smack it and munch it
as it wriggles for escape. Pay hommage
to acidic tears that have raped your flesh
as you bind it, whip it, blend it, sip it
and wash away years.
Apologise, laying thick bouquets at its waist
then stroke the ventricle.
Fondle the fruity foliage that falls and lays placid
on the floor like diamonds,joining up cracks and corners
sizzling and symmetrical.
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