Michelle Williams-

copulated

 

the night bleeds slowly

but i am tumbling erotic

plunging breathless

beneath the silken thrusts of your benediction

an exhale away

a gasp in predication

and your refrain

elusive

a carnal indifference

nebulous as rain

tattoo

 

i’d wear your perhaps

like a tattoo

eternal

if there was but     one

reason

beyond the rational

to

grains

 

we peer through glass  

                darkly

stained with windows

as if the denying the master

had not already enslaved

as if time were not the marrow

framing these bones

as if it were only passing    grains

counting lullabies

like Buddha in repose

 

Michelle Williams is the author of Female (Alabaster and Mercury) and founder of Vocal INKorporated, an organization dedicated to the freedom of expression through poetry, music and art. She is the host of several poetry, art and performance events in the NW Ohio area, including Simply Poetry. She is the host of Vocality and Selections on BlogTalkRadio and also serves as the Ohio Senate Member for the international music and arts organization, Poetry Over Music. She will be publishing a new chapbook during the summer of 2012 with Crisis Chronicles Press.