by Joe Girard
(09/26/07)
Lick
with your tongue
my butterfly-
knifing knee
Lick
of beaded
meteorite rain
spanking down a splash of leopard-print
birthmarks, jazz-bent,
across your ass
Lick
my roiling, shifting,
uncharted bodyscapes,
like ketchup down the dog,
with the arch of your sole
map the restless sea of me
finger-spelunk past meat-
grinding bone, find the red bed --
suck into it
Lick
of purple, pupil-burnt streetlight
postering the focus point of
my wide shut ecstasy
a ufo,
take me
Lick:
foot across clean sheets;
Lick
of intense, plaid-patterned folds
smoothed serene
with one sweep
of my manic,
jerking feet
erasing the evidence
of my big bang
expanding inside you
like
a Lick
upon a helpless nipple
The Poet's Companion - by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux