Friday, July 15, 2005

Ummmm...

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

-Pablo Neruda

2 Comments:

Blogger The Humanity Critic said...

I like that piece..

9:43 AM  
Blogger Luke Cage said...

Good morning. Had a long trip from NYC a few hours ago, and that most certainly got me up. Happy Monday dear!

7:28 AM  

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