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Poetry & Art of the Intelligently Erotic
Issue 3.0
| G.A. Buchholz - Silence Ascending |
She bends color and cuts light
Her hands extend into quickening thoughts
Shaping phrases into choral voices
Eyes scan vastly across the echoing green canyons of possibility
And with a few small gestures from her ringed fingers
She forges the morning dreams that make us wake suddenly
And breathe forbidden joy
While she holds flame to the wick of a scented candle,
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Until the risk of burning is equal to the birth of light.
The recommended breaking of her heart
Broke stained windows, and loosed forbidden skies
That hailed meteorites of ice upon tilted desks and rotting libraries
And now, she sits across from me upon the floor
Our space cleansed by rivers of tea, wax, music and incense,
And after a few moments, her lightest touch descends upon my hands.
An audible silence ascends, perfectly pronounced
As a child’s question; and in that absence of words she speaks what I must hear
And though I hear, and understand
Her lips have never moved, nor parted
Her hands extend into quickening thoughts
Shaping phrases into choral voices
Eyes scan vastly across the echoing green canyons of possibility
And with a few small gestures from her ringed fingers
She forges the morning dreams that make us wake suddenly
And breathe forbidden joy
While she holds flame to the wick of a scented candle,
Waiting, waiting, waiting
Until the risk of burning is equal to the birth of light.
The recommended breaking of her heart
Broke stained windows, and loosed forbidden skies
That hailed meteorites of ice upon tilted desks and rotting libraries
And now, she sits across from me upon the floor
Our space cleansed by rivers of tea, wax, music and incense,
And after a few moments, her lightest touch descends upon my hands.
An audible silence ascends, perfectly pronounced
As a child’s question; and in that absence of words she speaks what I must hear
And though I hear, and understand
Her lips have never moved, nor parted
Table of Contents
Poems
Steph A. Bills - Kid Like Envy,
Sex Crazed, Spring Flowers,
An Ostentatious Eve
Kim Townsel - Prey, Outside
Christopher Kenneth Hanson -
Our Latest Madam, Neon
Lips and Static Grease, Blood
Orange Heart
Larry Blazek - Lady of
Twilight/Birds of a Feather
Howard Good - A Small Fault
Emily Burns - Yearning, Now
We Walk, The Care and
Tending of Fire
Jess Scott - The One About
the Shoes, Three Haiku
Richard Lighthouse - Shards of
Silence, Holding Air
Lyla Dabbe - Voyeur, One
Night, The Exhibitionist
Michael Estabrook - Like
Icarus
Abha Iyengar - Three Poems
Lakesha Davis - Hard Flower
Michele Mitchell - Songs of
Solomon, Switch
Stacy Mar - Breathe You
Tanya Martinez - Skin Deep,
Inside
Eric Hamilton - Bathroom
Floor Confessions
Lee Sharp - Ravished, Night
Sky as a Woman's Heels,
Isabella
G.A. Buchholz - Silence
Ascending
Art
D.C. Lynn - The Kiss, In the
Heat of the Night, Suzanne,
Blue
K.R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch -
Vinyl, Shakeout
Abha Iyengar - Still Life
Additional Photography
provided by Tanya Martinez
and Jessica Anne Gleason
Poems
Steph A. Bills - Kid Like Envy,
Sex Crazed, Spring Flowers,
An Ostentatious Eve
Kim Townsel - Prey, Outside
Christopher Kenneth Hanson -
Our Latest Madam, Neon
Lips and Static Grease, Blood
Orange Heart
Larry Blazek - Lady of
Twilight/Birds of a Feather
Howard Good - A Small Fault
Emily Burns - Yearning, Now
We Walk, The Care and
Tending of Fire
Jess Scott - The One About
the Shoes, Three Haiku
Richard Lighthouse - Shards of
Silence, Holding Air
Lyla Dabbe - Voyeur, One
Night, The Exhibitionist
Michael Estabrook - Like
Icarus
Abha Iyengar - Three Poems
Lakesha Davis - Hard Flower
Michele Mitchell - Songs of
Solomon, Switch
Stacy Mar - Breathe You
Tanya Martinez - Skin Deep,
Inside
Eric Hamilton - Bathroom
Floor Confessions
Lee Sharp - Ravished, Night
Sky as a Woman's Heels,
Isabella
G.A. Buchholz - Silence
Ascending
Art
D.C. Lynn - The Kiss, In the
Heat of the Night, Suzanne,
Blue
K.R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch -
Vinyl, Shakeout
Abha Iyengar - Still Life
Additional Photography
provided by Tanya Martinez
and Jessica Anne Gleason