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On Course
by R. Dean Ludden

 

A smile, a word, a kiss,

an empathy, a bond...

a biologic urgency

and two will find a way

to travel through the stars

aboard a single pillowed vehicle

while even breath will yield to passion

up until the moment cries and shouts

are unrestrained!

 

My God! Your wondrous belly

heaves in splendor underneath my substance.

Those luscious thrashing thighs

enfold my plunging lower body as commanders

on a mission of delight and exaltation.

Yes, and two exquisite breasts

make dedicated servants of

my hands and mouth

as if the end of life itself were near.

 

My love!

All wilfulness abandoned for the sake

of one creative act of beauty--

of which bounds are infinite.

Such an act to glorify the very sweat

emerging from our pores.

And then the floodgates burst,

and for a moment of suspended time

even thought is gone...

for one effulgent interval

another paradise could not exist

and just the all that two create

...............is everything.

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