http://amphibi.us Thu, 17 May 2012 00:15:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://amphibi.us/all/she-laughs-lustily/ http://amphibi.us/all/she-laughs-lustily/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:12:02 +0000 Shannon Peil http://amphibi.us/?p=1781 Like the honeybee
furious in its task
I would rip the abdomen
devour the essence of life, my own
run through
that which stands in my way

Of timeless flight
and flutterings
mid-air lovemaking
of heartbeats measured in wingspan
and anguished thrustings

I now
the honeycomb
sweetened in your haste
bathe in the efforts of your force
and fall from the sky
Bee again

Yellow then black, yellow then black
as sweet as nectar
as ripe as spring

© Dawn A. Green, 2010

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]]> http://amphibi.us/all/she-laughs-lustily/feed/ 1 http://amphibi.us/all/the-deed/ http://amphibi.us/all/the-deed/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:18:13 +0000 Shannon Peil http://amphibi.us/?p=1373 tell the tale
without the presence of darkness or light
whose shadows and intrusions
mar the color of truth
gray-brown like the indignation
of one at odds with his self

take the tattered wordsmith from the podiums of religion
and sever the wagging tongue from the exclusive sect
that the sun might set
in the valley of the demon and rise
within the crest of the angel’s wind

sing of the beige that prevails
the muddy medley of the human soul
of the inclination to speak harm
and the instinct to heal
all one, neither colorful
nor colorless

Speak that basic brown dialect of self-knowing
the generous jive of ashes doomed to dust
I am the angel, I am the demon
all good and all evil
lies in me

© Dawn A. Green, 2010

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