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"tangled up in shadows"

Rain and sleet splat and skritch the glass outside.
Gunmetal gray sky, bleary sunlight clawing through cloudcover
for an instant or two only, then backing off, defeated.

In this room
the drear of the outside means less than nothing --
warm glow of lamplight, bas-relief of shadows
created by our tangled bodies.
Smoky sighs, whisperlight caresses, dreamy slow-slow stroking,
merging and melting, time and space stretching and folding
as we create our own intimate reality.

Spent and glistening, emptied and echoing, we are reluctant to break the silence
with empty words.
And so
we lie entangled still,
shadows crisscrossing heated skin,
fingers trailing along curve of breast and hip, shoulder and belly,
deep breathing in tandem a herald of intimacy.

Harsh ringing intrudes.
Time fractures and refragments, the telephone shrill and insistent --
until with a negligent flick you tumble it from the bedside
and leave it to squawk impotently into the carpet.
Impudence glitters in your eyes and I grin in return.

Drifting once more, fitted into and around and over each other,
rocking sensuously to and fro, enclasped sweetly within our private shadows.
The world outside can wait a while longer.


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Date: 2004-12-21 01:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaktwos.livejournal.com
This is why it pays to have a song like Marvin Gay's "let's get it on" as the phone ring tone...

Nicely done. :-)

Date: 2004-12-21 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dslartoo.livejournal.com
Thank you much!

Oddly enough, I first heard that song done by one of my local fave bands, RATL (http://www.ratl.net/) (my friend [livejournal.com profile] eminor9th is the guitarist). I have of course heard the original by now, though.

cheers,
Phil

Date: 2004-12-21 04:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dslartoo.livejournal.com
I hope that means you thought it was decent. :)

cheers,
Phil

Date: 2004-12-21 05:27 am (UTC)

thank you!

Date: 2004-12-21 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiritchaser1.livejournal.com
From the tone of this poem, the phone was the only thing left to squawk impotently. ;)

Re: thank you!

Date: 2004-12-21 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dslartoo.livejournal.com
Hee. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

cheers,
Phil

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