The Web Poetry Corner - Crystal Dawn Allen - the taste of green things
the taste of green things
by
Crystal Dawn Allen
I am sacrificed to this impossible Snowy Adonis, naked and hiding within scented scriptures
I have a taste for roses, violent and scarlet, bleeding over the black and white of birches in the bare earth
(oh spring, I am soaked with virgin kisses)
into the tender bark
crawling like fire
shred my stars, shed my scars
and i will pour into the wounds, bleeding backwards, offering up my sunset blood
This is the taste of green things
and holy thought at full force
I remember how his eyes glowed with desire, and how the dawn was steaming in his absense, and the wind was haunting, and I could taste every ash from every fire in his head, expressing