Alpha Zeta

A - Did Perseus rescue Andromeda, just to
spread her legs across the heavens,
sweat glistening as pinprick-lights on her thighs?

B - The original breast for a lullaby,
the smooth curves that come
with the onslaught of pregnancy.

C - So eager to please, if you please it,
yet giving while it takes, teasing caresses and
coaxing blushes from its prey.

D - An aging bachelor, just fed,
too sexless or proud
to hold his bulging stomach in.

E - My darling, amputated octopus,
a kiss waiting on each desperate arm.
Love will never touch its beak-flanked lips.

F - A falcon's frail-seeming claw
strikes both clouds and flesh
with the sharpest of blades.

G - The unforgiving hook dangling
from an angler-fish's forehead:
its camouflaged gullet swallows me hole.

H - Spider monkey skitters up
ready to set fire
burning his last bridge.

I - All sharp edges, this letter
will slice me, leaving me bereft,
my only friend a dull-blade infection.

J - Dragonfly in heat, fighting for purchase
on the slippery walls of this rocking canoe,
dipping its toes in the ripples.

K - Little girl lost drops her hairbow
left in the gutter because
it doesn't go with eyeshadow.

L - Rain over the waterfall
reborn in white foam, to the surface:
a daily death can't drown you.

M - Two children clasp hands, unwavering
even at first light, pillars stand
before the gate to the big, bad world.

N - There is a tunnel between you and God;
only if you kiss his feet
will it take you to him.

O - The moon when it inhales
breaks the perfection
of one immutable radius.

P - The veteran leans on his cane;
he still leaves a place
for his phantom leg to stand.

Q - Grandfather time has lost
his sharp hands to sleep
they prod his weary feet.

R - A pair of lovers dance the tango,
one stiletto-clad foot
drawing scars on the hardwood floor.

S - Come and go, hither and yon,
forge ahead and recoil sharp
dithering like a sidewinder's path.

T - Nature's most rigid tree,
manufactured by architects, eschewing circles
and roses for the comfort of spines.

U - Rib shapes flesh
skin caresses bone
the skeleton jitters home.

V - Aries lowered his horns only after
both sides of this bloody war
had died for such a peace.

W - Venomous, two-headed snake,
starving yourself for your pride,
both mouths refusing to become a tail.

X - The valley admires its reflection
just like an overconfident man
it sees itself as a mountain.

Y - The evenly split chambers
of a frog's tepid heart, fresh from
pond-splashing and courting the night.

Z - Here is the body bent in death
blank eyes staring at the angle of hell
meeting with that of heaven.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AEW~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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