Al Rocheleau
Voyeur
I saw Diana bathe
in the still water
wearing that shined sheet
of wet like a coming-out
gift from her father,
hair atangle and every
curve drawing centrifugal
tongues of wanting, deep
into crease and cleft--
enough to die for
and for mortals, that’s something;
her opalescent view, afire
spelled me into bodies
of repetitive stags, staggering
through history, drunk
of her pool and sighted
by the hunter’s smile, dead
upon running, running still,
into the myth
of the dogs,
their cold eyes.
in the still water
wearing that shined sheet
of wet like a coming-out
gift from her father,
hair atangle and every
curve drawing centrifugal
tongues of wanting, deep
into crease and cleft--
enough to die for
and for mortals, that’s something;
her opalescent view, afire
spelled me into bodies
of repetitive stags, staggering
through history, drunk
of her pool and sighted
by the hunter’s smile, dead
upon running, running still,
into the myth
of the dogs,
their cold eyes.
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