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Thank You, Georgia O'Keefe
by Melanie Votaw
(08/13/08)
I wish my childhood fingers had known
it was an orchid between my thighs
instead of some fragile moist mystery
to avoid like the drunk on the corner.
Don't look don't ask questions always use tissues
to avoid the spread of germs,
Hold your knees tightly and ignore the odd tingling,
the murmur of a burgeoning throb
rising in the dark tunnel
with as much mystique as the attic with the jammed door.
I wish my childhood fingers had known
that the orchid would someday grow
miraculously crimson
and lush with breathless dew
dripping
(with the over lapping of sighs)
onto another's tongue.
©2008 by Melanie Votaw
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Melanie Votaw is a full-time freelance writer, poet, photographer, and book author in New York City. She has published ten non-fiction books on a variety of subjects, including 52 Weeks of Passionate Sex, and more than fifty of her poems have been published in the literary magazines of six countries.
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