Room, Rooming, Roomed

Figure
Figures
Fig-
 
  ures
    naked in the dust
Dust covered
 
            bodies
   
naked out of lust
Dawn
Dawn
    dawning
light
    fleeing
         
    aflight
Towards
    dusk
and
the dank smell of musk

The dark
    covers
them
cowerign cowards
Refuge
Refugee
   
from day's
    forsaken womb
Tandem
   
groping in nether light
Lamp
    Lamp and its
broken night

Lover's flagon
    dragon-seed
of doom
Caress
Caresses
    the need of the
moon-
         lit cavern
Whence
come
    Love's tender swoon
Comuppance
 
  of kisses exchanged
Hands
Hands
Hand-
 
  some couple
    communing
With
all-encompassing hunger
Driving forth
   
forthwith withdrawn
    machine-like
thrusts
Lance-
    and rapier-like
   
     lunge

Sounds
   
soundless gasps
Breathing
    breathe's
breadth
    parting
    panting after
it
Sounds
    echo and echo
   
with nonesuch
Sounds
    of love
   
     and lust
Echo
Echoing
   
deafening in the silence
of their lovemaking
   
     cast

Soft
Soft-
   
ly speaking bodies
Tongues of fire
    dancing
 
       whirling
A wind
   
winded

Tensed
Supple
Supple-
   
menting one another's
Rhythmic
       
 pendulum
of softness
       
 tensing
Tensed
    receiving from
tension
Bearing noises up high

Up
Up
Up-
 
  on an aerie
           
       they swoop
       
                down
 
            and down-
   
and down-
               
   wards
    they descend
   
     plummeting
       
 surrendering
       
 neverending
Dance
Dances
Danc-
   
ing primitive dances
Thin-
Thinking
   
primitive thoughts

Tear
Tear
Tear-
   
ing to wear
The spring
    winds
   
     down
A breeze
   
flutters
Manageable momentum
    atop an
 
       eagle's nest
Within
   
the earth's
    bosom and breast

The head
 
       falls
       
 and necks
         graceful
swan's necks
Converge
         to
meet
Lips
         and tongues
 
       upon mouth and teeth

Dizzy
 
  dizzy
         dizzy-
 
            ingly
Dazzled

--andoy, 5 December 1983