- Non-Erotic Poetry
- leeuwenhoek, on love
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Click herewhen i press a wet palm
onto the sidewalk of your body
i watch how the damp outline
of my spread, desperate fingers
quickly shrinks and fades
like an amoeba who swims
out of the focal plane
of the emotional microscope
i have here labeled "love"
then is it time for another slide
another drop of pond water
another life, another thigh
- COMMENTS
KOLKOREabout 16 years agoThe image brings with it much to investigate…. Does investigated love or relations brings with it heightened awareness to all that there is in it, thus leads to more acute sense of loss? Or does the magnifying glass allows you (perhaps at the same time) better see the qualities which will soon lead to the end of the relations; to look at the disappearing traces with more distance as if through a microscope at a distant microbe rather than into our own fraught lives.
unpredictablebijouabout 16 years agoThis is tight, perfect and evocative. Not a word out of places. Very well done.
champagne1982about 16 years agoand nourished on agar. Does love withstand microscopic examination? I like how you blend your 3 metaphors into one simple illustration. Very nicely done.
This poem is mentioned in the New Poems Review thread on Literotica's Poetry Discussion and Feedback forum.
