The Other Familiar
One last companion piece, this time for my second Lush poem
My touch once turned you to stone,folded the intricate universewithin you when longing couldn't keep me here anymore.I still read your pages by candlelight to see if the words revealed more to you,golden glows flicker against inkthat may as well have been blood.You wanted me to memorize every night,to see my own silhouette in loops,slants and hexameter flows.But this map is a note passed between lovers,held over flames ju...