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Poetry & Art of the Intelligently Erotic
Issue 3.0
| Stacy Mar - Breathe You |
This is the June, July, and August,
Where my soul awakened and dripped
In syllables, words, a monogram of me
Falling from between the green of your hooded eyes.
And there is the place where we meet,
An undressing, ingathering of sharp points,
The grasping of bony fingers falling asleep
Atop each others hearts, a tangle of arms and limbs.
And this is the darkened sky, that pedestrian spy,
Where across the stars I lay my head.
I close my eyes to dreams thronged with
Pink hearts, cupid’s arrow and love unlike Madame Bovary’s.
And here is my body that you love,
The subservient part of me, it wears my love for you,
Librarian savvy and adorned in pink, I wrap
The inseparable parts of you in my scarf, it rests below my chin.
Lover, we are of the ever-after variety,
A pale blur shooting from within the universe,
We pierce the sky, strip continents the distance,
A magenta sunset, an eclipse at midnight, moonlight across the bay.
We are everything, open arms and love falling
Across a screen, wedging itself between sentences we type.
We are song lyrics and logic, tears of happiness
Crawling across cheeks that smile wide, they smile for us.
You are the pagoda shade to my sensitivity,
And me, I am of silliness and a wide smile.
Your poet, your synonym in this vast and desolate place where
I rest my face against your forehead, and breathe you.
Where my soul awakened and dripped
In syllables, words, a monogram of me
Falling from between the green of your hooded eyes.
And there is the place where we meet,
An undressing, ingathering of sharp points,
The grasping of bony fingers falling asleep
Atop each others hearts, a tangle of arms and limbs.
And this is the darkened sky, that pedestrian spy,
Where across the stars I lay my head.
I close my eyes to dreams thronged with
Pink hearts, cupid’s arrow and love unlike Madame Bovary’s.
And here is my body that you love,
The subservient part of me, it wears my love for you,
Librarian savvy and adorned in pink, I wrap
The inseparable parts of you in my scarf, it rests below my chin.
Lover, we are of the ever-after variety,
A pale blur shooting from within the universe,
We pierce the sky, strip continents the distance,
A magenta sunset, an eclipse at midnight, moonlight across the bay.
We are everything, open arms and love falling
Across a screen, wedging itself between sentences we type.
We are song lyrics and logic, tears of happiness
Crawling across cheeks that smile wide, they smile for us.
You are the pagoda shade to my sensitivity,
And me, I am of silliness and a wide smile.
Your poet, your synonym in this vast and desolate place where
I rest my face against your forehead, and breathe you.
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