Fucking Daphne (29 page)
Authors: Daphne Gottlieb
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when indulgence refuses to cool but lifts the tongue
like luggage, that gift,
discharged energy, quantitative flesh
cathexes,
a thumb's vibrato in unreluctant places,
history
invents myth as a kind of speech
in which we are held,
sweet
compendium of irreconcilable limits
and touch,
each gathering areola its own dayâaffirmâ
like luggage, that gift,discharged energy, quantitative flesh
cathexes,a thumb's vibrato in unreluctant places,
history
invents myth as a kind of speechin which we are held,
sweetcompendium of irreconcilable limits
and touch,
each gathering areola its own dayâaffirmâÂ
each arching hip a new instrumentâaffirmâ
you haven't the boy in you to kill me but this tongue
better than death, equaled only by touch,
call it
transformative or even mortal,
this flesh tent where fist is kiss and we are praxis, syllables held, sound endowed with biography, body, and history,
you haven't the boy in you to kill me but this tonguebetter than death, equaled only by touch,call ittransformative or even mortal,
this flesh tent where fist is kiss and we are praxis, syllables held, sound endowed with biography, body, and history,
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given tenor and tremble,
the substance of history
mentioned but in passing though the floor dips to affirm
each kiss, though the ceiling splits to show we are unheld
by promise or men's logic or anything but tongue
which is more than enough to sanctify this joined flesh (isn't transubstantiation in reverse reason enough to
touch?
)
the substance of history
mentioned but in passing though the floor dips to affirmeach kiss, though the ceiling splits to show we are unheldby promise or men's logic or anything but tonguewhich is more than enough to sanctify this joined flesh (isn't transubstantiation in reverse reason enough totouch?
)
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bend your touch into an ecstatic history
where the grace of flesh is the only way to affirm
one true god, your tongue, right there, held.
where the grace of flesh is the only way to affirmone true god, your tongue, right there, held.Other books
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