Dread and Desire

The body's adversaries

salt the pink filet

of concupiscence.

When the woman desired

changes her shape

and the rotten oaks

grow up from stumps

to fall again, ardor

floods the Dakotas

of subject and object.

He wants, he wants, he wants

to rub his wrinkles

against smooth skin.

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