Monday, December 23, 2024

Lover Julie

I do not know what to call it,
this transcendence of pi,
the unending double-helix,

the rain that becomes stream

that becomes sea and cloud

and then rain again,

 

the sorceress who appears

randomly in technicolor dreams

in robes of royal blue,

 

the tantalizing twist,

the asymmetry and abandon

of Tantric sex.

 

But sometimes, oftentimes,

it takes upon itself a voice,

whispers, cajoles, moves me

from here to everywhere.

 

I call it Lover Julie

because it speaks to me

in numbers and rain,

in incantations bright,

erotic dance, sensual desire.

 

She’s fond of hiding

around the corner

in the hallway of an old school

of mahogany and stairwells.

“Come, come,” she says.

 

She is an angled beam

of yellow morning sun

streaming through the window,

and I am a dust mote

floating in her ecstasy.


~William Hammett



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