painting: “Steps In Paris” by: Edward Hopper © 1906
Impaled
passion
let it run fire red
red as the roofs of Paris
that conceal the carnal
intertwined
on a starless night
in the throes
of sweating conquest
ripe with release
coursing with hunger
for the tender flesh
of reckless youth
white hot
as a deflowered bride
burning with the lust
of an august first-night
impaled on the horn
of promise and desire
there will be no truth
in these minglings
only raw bleeding need
and the quenchless thirst
for bittersweet
forbidden nectar
when you hear the whispers
know that it was so
and so it will remain
in the electric loins
of the skin slaves
aflame under red roofs
~ ~ ~
rob kistner © 2012