Monday, 17 February 2014

Poetry: An Eloquent Bee-Swallower

She’s an eloquent bee-swallower.
All the boys crowd around her and think,
“I just want to wallow in her.”

She takes each of their stings and spits it back in their
Brick-like faces, only they can’t see the beauty of its slime.
She’s an eloquent bee-swallower.

They call her this, that and the other.
She says, “You don’t know the half of it.”
I just want to wallow in her.

Eyes of blue and green are
wasted on the colour-blind bricks which long for the moisture of her spit, but
she’s an eloquent bee-swallower.

Her eyes meet with mine and we share
a joke only we two can appreciate, in its sophisticated simplicity.
I just want to wallow in her.

We roll our eyes and leave the empty room together.
We two will be intimate in our silent understanding.
She’s an eloquent bee-swallower.

I just want to wallow in her.

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