Intimacy

Come to me
Bare necked
And blemished

Desire is
Ten pots of honey
And something warm between my legs

desire is red wine

I drink you like

Red wine

Thick, sweet

Open mouthed

Bare necked

And straight from the bottle

You make my cheeks warm

And my head spin

desire is pumpkin tendrils

It is an organic thing

Like damp soil

Like vegetable scraps upon a compost

A heady cloying warmth

I press my hands against it

And it molds around my fingers

It grows

Rich and

Earthy dark

Like chocolate, like mud

It ferments

And fantastic things happen

Like pumpkin tendrils

It is procreant

And fertile

Just add liquid

The sweet sap of our thighs

heaving sighs

And it grows

rampant and unruly

It is an organic thing.

It is a wild thing.

Gillian

a weaver of dark stories, of weathered tales
with red hair the colour of autumn leaves
and a heavily pronounced face
like its been drawn with a lead pencil
one of those thick 6B ones you smudge with the side of your hand
she has these big eyes
too soft a blue for such a heavy face
and such harrowed songs

desire is a city of stone

Will it ever grow stale before I do?

Before I wither and erode

My heart

Like charcoal simmering golden black

A dried up fat river,

Dank and mossy tangle of roots

My soul, grey

My body crinkling like leaves

Will this passion for you ever subside

Because right now

It feels like it will remain stoic

For one thousand years

A city of stone

Inside my body

Gemma's fear

Gemma panics

Because the summer is shrinking around her

The summer of gardening hands

The summer of salt stained skin

The summer of thieving mornings

So we sleep in the bush

And she rises with the dawn and the shrieking children

And runs along the highway

She asks everyone

On the first day of autumn

‘what will this season give you?’

She is searching for something

Beautiful to fill her

To give to the world as the world gives to her

But no one can answer

Satisfactorily

The seasons chase eachother around us

and we swell

sometimes i think my heart
was too crazy for you
too damn crazy for you
too damn crazy for you