Palea

  by Tory Dent

   Only my mouth taking you in, the greenery splayed deep green.

   Within my mouth, your arm inserted, a stem of gestures, breaking gracefully.

   Into each other we root arbitrarily, like bushes, silken, and guttural.

   Palaver, we open for the thrill of closing, for the thrill of it: opening.

   The night was so humid when I knelt on the steps, wet and cold, of prewar stone.

   A charm bracelet of sorts we budded, handmade but brazen, as if organic.

   I cannot imagine the end of my fascination, emblazoned but feather-white too.

   The gold closure of this like a gold coin is, of course, ancient.

   Why can't experience disseminate itself, be silken and brazen yet underwater?

   A miniature Eiffel Tower, an enameled shamrock, a charm owned by its bracelet.

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