Betweens

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Betweens

On the beach at New Moon's rising,
Fourteen waning from Full before,
Fourteen waxing from Full to be,
I sit between Salt Water and Sea Sand,
Waiting, Wondering, Watching for her.
I dive in Charybdic Current close by Scyllic Stone,
Only to surface empty-handed.

A vaporetto glides between
The rocks of the jetty and the hardwoods of the quay;
I board, and stop amidships, the sole passenger.
She is not there.
To Venezia, rising in darkness between Lagoon and Sky, and
I stand centred on the span of the Ponte di Rialto.
A bus stops and I board, sitting in the middle
On the back bench of the unlit vehicle.

Dim streetlights barely illuminate the road ahead, and
I focus each eye separately. The line of lights doubles
Then converges, and a woman appears,
Shimmering and shimmying in silken shift,
A single feather in a silken band rises from her forehead.
She sits on my lap and speaks softly, clearly, resonantly:
"You will come home with me."
Her inflection doesn't stress the start
Nor does it rise at the end;
Neither command nor request, it merely observes.

The bus stops and the driver announces
"Nineteen Twenty-Two Erzébet Hid."
The woman vanishes and I disembark, searching again.
The span's towers are unfamiliar;
It is the old bridge, long ago destroyed in War.
A glimmer on the far side and I intone "Erzebet."
As I leave Buda she departs from Pest, and we pause,
Each one step from the Middle.

Be it Danube or Rubicon, it is crossed.
She steps forward, out of, through, her flapper's shift,
And I do as much, tuxedo falling to bridge's deck.
Her arms wrap around my neck as mine encircle her waist,
And we press. Breasts and chest touch and skin dissolves
As we pass into one another. In a flash
Our hearts beat beside themselves, and
We are on Margitzeget,
In the Lover's Tower on the island.
Lips meet and part allowing tongues to join.

Again a flash as our heads and minds merge,
A single plume rising from their conjunction,
And we stand in the centre of Roebling's span,
Straddling the East River in an intersection of Stone and Iron.
The in between of my closed legs enters
The in between of her open legs, and again...
Above and below and below and above the Chesapeake
We shimmy and shimmer and wax and wane,
Then quiver and quake into a single radiant orb.

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EmmelineEmmelineabout 7 years ago
Lovely!

Beautifully written, Tio :)

UnderYourSpellUnderYourSpellover 9 years ago
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To me it reads like a Travel brochure with perks. A list telling the reader what you did where, like a postcard sent saying 'Wish you were here'.

pelegrinopelegrinoover 9 years ago

Beautiful all the way through with very dense super structure. I have to read it a few times more to get full enjoyment of it.

In the start it gave me a mood similar to Italo Calvino's "Le citta invisibilli". Probably he would have been jealous for not thinking of it.

5ed & recommended!

Thanks for sharing and for your invitation to read, I would have missed it otherwise.

AnonymousAnonymousover 9 years ago
Most lovely

Transported me to other places, other times... lovely language, beautiful, sensual, and ultimately visceral imagery. One of the best I've seen on Lit.

-Ayn

Oldbear63Oldbear63over 9 years ago
Really Excellent

I enjoyed all of it, but the first stanza caught me, set the mood.

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