Skin

Oh, sweet menagerie

Drenched and dripping

In thick, thick love

Softening the densest stone

Milding the coarsest heat

Mostening the desert of the mind

Oh, watering tongue

Thirsting

As the apple lay suspended

Within inches

Oh, handsome lust

Of insatiable fruit

Oh, sweet menagerie of shifting skin pressed close

And drooling with the wine of love

The toast is set in stone

The glasses hoisted to the chandelier

And down the throats

To bless the curse

And satisfy the dryest desert of a thirst...

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