Sunday, July 22, 2012

Listening to Vivaldi's "La Follia" (Rough Draft)


1.

I fold myself into you, like a fan - paper covered with butterflies
fluttering against the sweat-coated necks of black-haired ladies,
 ruffles caught between fingers that crawl like bugs up my thighs.

2.

They say the neck of a woman is like the handle of a violin,
long and un-pluckable. It is her waist that sings
beneath your fingers, her breasts that fit into the spaces
between your thighs.

3.


At night, your string black chords into rotting wood;
the bow sings across shadows, fluttering like butterflies
folding and unfolding their blue wings, like a fan
serenading the sweaty necks of black-haired ladies.
Palms caress palms; notes linger over purple chairs,
as the ladies hover, stoccato, around the table,
their handles still unpluckable.


4. 

But oh, what music in that little piece of skin

Would it be soft and melodic, or more dissonant, like the work of Shoenberg?

5.

You flex your fingers.







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