Seduction in the heat of summer

Prague

by Khadijah Queen

 

 

Yes as thievery, except if saved for
a fantasy in which I in a backless
dress encounter

you on a typical balcony
overlooking Vltava, gripping the latticework,
metal, a barrier to leaping

into an esoteric night, fixed and ornate
enough, like my penchant for the infinite
within the singular, encounter you

as tributary, serpentine, the heat of your fingers
on my spine, my head turning
as you bend to catch the yes

I'd held latent, a mine you trigger with
your tongue, neither of us
mean to stop exploding.

Choosing ice and fire

Opal by Amy Lowell You are ice and fire,  The touch of you burns my hands like snow.  You are cold and flame.  You are the crimson of amaryllis,  The silver of moon-touched magnolias.  When I am with you,  My heart is a frozen pond  Gleaming with agitated torches.