Nymphal

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Nymphal

Following
upriver
Amazonian
Delphine women
forming
from the waves
with wet skin
and foamy hair

Pahn comes
to an island
where they leap
in and out
of the water
his guiding wife
hovering
in the ether behind
encouraging him
to pull a nymph
from the water
and hold her

Pahn expansively
halls
a pale
thin body
with incipient wings
over the sand
to a backwater

disrobing her
on the shore
palming
her humming-
bird breasts
watching
her piscine belly
in-curve
and swell

He turns around
his mouth welding
between her legs
his jaws
like a fish
fertilizing eggs
opening
and closing

drinking
the saliva
of the skin
fresh out of water

her torso
becomes
his wand…

…Pahn is kneeling by his wife
putting his nymph
in her hands
moving her palms
on his sheath

absorbing her laughter
as he spreads her
tips her up
like a glass
surrounding her thighs
with his arms
aspirating
her consonance
swallowing

her gender

tightening
together
like a knot

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