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...