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Monday, January 19, 2015

At the Reading When Souls Rise: (for Kwame Dawes)"


his smile, a hint of male tiger
a tinge of seduction
lingering on his lips,
pursed as a pearl

that pause of dominance
deep, double deep melody
rising and falling between
airy breaths on sounds

rehearsed in the
play of the gods?
his poetry ran raw
and succulently sweet

distilling our universal
desires into seductive
metaphors we dream to live
and own in our bodies

his call, his presence
beckoned me—
my soul took flight
and fancy

a gentle, quiet applause—
he stopped-
he looked and said “thank you”
with his tiger smile



 Kat
19 January 2015  ©

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